The Effect of Sedation on Eye Movements

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether sedation affects saccadic eye movements.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Collaborator: National Center for Research Resources (NCRR)
• Treatments: Dexmedetomidine; Hypnotics and Sedatives; Midazolam; Propofol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy, human volunteers, age 19-65.

• American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) class I-II for inclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Respiratory disease (severe asthma, emphysema)

• Cardiac disease (coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure)

• Symptomatic reflux disease

• Advanced rheumatic disease involving cervical spine

• Propofol or egg allergy

• Neurological disease (stroke, intracranial processes)

• Severe anemia