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Completed Phase 4 Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Ketamine Versus Etomidate for Procedural Sedation for Pediatric Orthopedic Reductions

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00596050

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Brief summary

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There are multiple retrospective studies detailing the use of etomidate in pediatric procedural sedation but few to no prospective clinical trials. None have compared etomidate to ketamine, currently the most commonly used sedative in the emergency department for pediatric procedural sedation. The investigators propose a randomized, controlled trial comparing etomidate versus ketamine for procedural sedation for fracture reduction for children presenting with extremity fracture requiring sedation for reduction. The investigators hypothesize that etomidate in combination with fentanyl will have similar reduction of distress and procedural recall as ketamine in combination with midazolam.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00596050
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Enrollment
50 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
5 Years to 18 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Jul 31, 2006
Primary completion
May 31, 2008
Completion
May 31, 2008
Last update posted
May 8, 2017

2006 – 2008

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19134

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