Does Precise Delivery of Remifentanil Decrease Coughing at Emergence From Anesthesia
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Unknown status
Trial end date:
2019-06-01
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Summary
The investigators want to find a way to reduce or stop patients from coughing at the end of
surgery when the breathing tube is taken out. The breathing tube is removed when the
participants are waking up from anesthesia, and are at the point when the participants can
breathe on your own. In most types of surgery, coughing at this point is common, and does not
affect the participants very much, if at all. But for surgery involving the eye or the head
and neck, coughing right after surgery can cause bleeding at the site of surgery.
This study will use a short-acting pain drug called remifentanil at the end of surgery to
prevent coughing. The investigators will give the participants this medicine for 5 to 30
minutes. The point of the study is to test if using a simple computer program to guide
precise delivery of how much of the drug is given to the participants is effective at
reducing or preventing coughing.