Post Anesthesia Emergence and Behavioral Changes in Children Undergoing MRI
Status:
Terminated
Trial end date:
2014-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Children who receive general anesthesia may become agitated (emergence delirium) in the
recovery period. This occurs more often after inhalational anesthetics, particularly
sevoflurane and desflurane than after propofol. However, agitation after anesthesia in
children may be difficult to distinguish from pain; accordingly studies are ideally designed
during MRI to obviate the contribution of pain during emergence. Airway complications have
been reported after LMA and isoflurane more commonly than with IV propofol and nasal prongs.
Whether the airway complications were due to the LMA or the isoflurane was unclear.
Therefore, this study was designed to study the incidence of 1. agitation after sevoflurane
compared with IV propofol and 2. airway complications after LMA or nasal prongs.