Dexmedetomidine pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamicsin mechanically ventilated children with single-organ respiratory failure
- Conditions
- Patients admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit with single-organ respiratory failure
- Registration Number
- EUCTR2009-016785-88-BE
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity Hospital Ghent
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
- patients admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit
- expected to require at least 24h of mechanical ventilation
- patient age : 1 month-15 years
- patients with single-organ respiratory failure
Are the trial subjects under 18? yes
Number of subjects for this age range:
F.1.2 Adults (18-64 years) no
F.1.2.1 Number of subjects for this age range
F.1.3 Elderly (>=65 years) no
F.1.3.1 Number of subjects for this age range
- patients with neurologic conditions that prohibit an evaluation of adequate analgosedation
- no arterial catheter in place at inclusion
- patients who have received another investigational drug within 30 days
- patients on continuous infusion with neuromuscular blockers
- patients with a life expectancy <72h
- patients with a known allergy to lorazepam, midazolam and/or morphine
- heart block
- pre-existing bradycardia
- hemodynamically unstable patients (Wernovsky index > 16 points) after full fluid replacement with cristalloid
- paients with significant renal insufficiency (creatinine plasma level 1 month-5 year : > 1 mg/dl ; 5-10 years : >1.2 mg/dl; > 10 years : > 1.5 mg/dl)
- patients with significant hepatic insufficiency (aspartate aminase >950 UI/L and prothrombin time < 60 or INR >1.4)
- previous treatment with a2-adrenoreceptor agonist clonidine within 14 days
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional clinical trial of medicinal product
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method