Premedication in Children: a Clinical Trial Comparing Oral Ketamine and Oral Clonidine With Respect to Sedation Level and Opioid Consumption in Pediatrics Undergoing Elective Lower Abdominal Day-case Surgery.

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Conditions studied: Pediatric Sedation, Clonidine Sedation, Ketamine Sedation

In brief

Aim of the work Is to compare between oral ketamine and oral clonidine regarding the level of sedation pre and postoperatively in addition the need of opioids administration intraoperative in children undergoing elective lower abdominal day-case surgery.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07461376

Run by

Cairo University

People needed

84

Starts

2025-04-15

Expected to finish

2026-11-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-10

Who can join

Age: 3 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children aged between 3 to 12 years old of both sexes undergoing elective lower abdominal day-case surgery such as: oblique inguinal herniorrhaphy, hypospadias correction and circumcision.
• ASA I and II

You may not qualify if…

• Parents refusal.
• ASA risk score >II
• Heart, lung, neurological, or central nervous system disorders (hypotension, hypovolemia, severe bradyarrhythmia, atrioventricular block II or III, acute cerebrovascular events, impaired consciousness, respiratory disorders with hypoventilation, myasthenia gravis and central sleep apnea syndrome)
• Allergy from the used drugs.

Where it is running

• Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University — Cairo, Giza Governorate, Egypt (enrolling)

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