The effects of tracheal tube cuffs filled with air, saline or alkalinised lidocaine (a local anaesthetic) on heart rate and blood pressure upon removal of tracheal tube and on cough, hoarseness of voice and sore throat in postoperative period in children.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2019/02/017871
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of Anaesthesiology
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 45
Inclusion Criteria
ASA physical status grade 1 or 2.
Children planned for elective surgery and requiring general anaesthesia with orotracheal intubation.
Surgeries expected to last 1-3 hours.
Exclusion Criteria
Children with oropharyngeal or neck malformations.
Children who had previously required tracheal intubation or tracheostomy.
Presence of stridor or dysphonia.
Children requiring surgery of neck, larynx or oropharynx.
Children requiring a nasogastric or orogastric tube.
Children requiring or receiving steroid medication.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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