Ketamine Tolerance in Children After Repeated Administrations During Radiotherapy Sessions

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Ketamine provides a safety zone for sedated but spontaneously ventilated children especially in remote conditions such as radiotherapy units where sedation is an essential practice for children to keep calm and motionless In this study, investigators planned to analyse ketamine doses needed and the recovery times in pediatric oncology patients undergoing repeated radiotherapy sessions.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Baskent University
• Treatments: Atropine; Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• pediatric patients undergoing radiotherapy due to oncologic disorders

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients younger than 1 year and older than 14 year,

• patients with cardiac, renal or liver function abnormalities, who were already under sedative drug treatment or allergic to the drugs to be used or the patients for whom the study drugs