Comparison of the Efficacy of Ketamine in Pediatric Patients With Idiopathic Scoliosis After Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Comparison of the Efficacy of ketamine measuring the total consumption of morphine in pediatric patients with idiopathic scoliosis

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fundació Sant Joan de Déu
• Collaborator: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
• Treatments: Ketamine; Morphine; Remifentanil

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patients of both genders diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis aged between 8 and 18 years old.

2. Patients of both genders diagnosed with idiopathic scoliosis and candidates for vertebral fusion corrective surgery with instrumentation.

3. Patients with ASA 1 or ASA 2.

4. Patients and/or parents/tutors consent to participate in the clinical trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients with chronic preoperative pain.

2. Patients with addiction to narcotics.

3. Patients with a history of allergy, contraindication or intolerance to the drugs used.

4. Patients unable to understand the patient-controlled analgesia system.

5. Patients with mental disorders.

6. Reoperated patients.

7. Patients requiring elective postoperative ventilation.

8. Pregnant patients.