Anesthesia for Retinopathy of Prematurity

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Premature infants experience more respiratory problems after surgical procedures. The investigators aimed to compare general anesthesia with sedation on the need for post-operative mechanical ventilation in infants undergoing retinopathy of prematurity surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: TC Erciyes University
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Ketamine; Nitrous Oxide; Propofol; Sevoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• infants aged 32-40 weeks who were scheduled to undergo laser surgery for treatment of ROP

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criteria were patients requiring inotropic support,

• the need for mechanical ventilation or intubation in the 3 days prior to the operation,

• known allergy or hypersensitivity reaction to ketamine and propofol,

• age ˃40 weeks.