Local Anesthesia for Pediatric Cochlear Implant

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-08-26
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Propofol with remifentanil provides good operative conditions for pediatric cochlear implant (CI); however, large doses of remifentanil usually result in postoperative hyperalgesia and increase postoperative pain. Local anesthesia (LA) is commonly used as an adjunct to general anesthesia in children; however, otologists are usually reluctant in the use of LA as it can cause abolishment of the electrical stapedial reflex threshold (ESRT).

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Ain Shams University; Wahba bakhet
• Collaborator: Bahteem Specialized Hospital
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ASA I-II physical status,

• age between 1 and 6 year,

Exclusion Criteria:

• known allergy to local anesthetics,

• predicted operative difficulty (i.e. syndromic hearing loss, congenital cochlear abnormalities or cochlear ossification.