Anesthetist Controlled Versus Patient-controlled Sedation: Risks and Benefits

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2021-02-24
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Perioperative anxiety has many hazards and should be eliminated. Patients undergoing ophthalmologic procedures often undergo it under local anesthesia. In a trial to improve patients' satisfaction sedation is given. Sedation could be given either by an anesthetist or patient-controlled methods. This study compared both methods of sedation in terms of safety, depth of sedation, and patient satisfaction.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Cairo University
• Treatments: Fentanyl; Midazolam

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA physical status I, II.

• Age group 40-65 years old.

• Co-operative patients aware of the instructions.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of cognitive impairment or mental disorder.

• Hypersensitivity to any of the used drugs.

• Contraindication to local anesthesia e.g. Coagulation disorder.

• Severe pulmonary disease e.g. (obstructive sleep apnea).

• Use of sedative medications within the previous month.

• Chronic renal and cardiac disorder e.g. (chronic renal failure, heart failure).