the Effective Bolus Dose of Remifentanil for Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) Insertion in Children

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This research attempts to find the optimum dose of remifentanil that can prevent the unnecessary responses such as coughing, gagging, and movement when LMA is inserted during sevoflurane induction in pediatric patients.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Sangjin Park
• Treatments: Remifentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status 1 or 2

• undergoing short elective surgery(i.e Strabismus surgery, Entropion surgery, Inguinal hernia surgery, etc) under general anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• suspected difficult airways

• respiratory disease (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, upper respiratory infection)

• body mass index > 30 kg/m2

• allergies to the study drugs

• a history of gastric reflux