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Terminated Not applicable Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers Results available

Combined Ketamine/Propofol for Emergency Department Procedural Sedation

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01126957

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Introduction Numerous drugs and combinations of drugs are used for procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) in Emergency Departments, including propofol, ketamine, benzodiazepines, narcotics, barbiturates, and others, but propofol has gained popularity despite its potential to cause cardiac and respiratory depression. Obviously the optimal agent or combination of agents has not been identified. There are reasons to believe that a combination of ketamine and propofol may have advantages over other agents/combinations. These include better hemodynamic stability at equal depth of anesthesia with a combination of ketamine/propofol than with propofol alone, less respiratory depression with the combination in comparison to propofol alone, and preservation of respiratory drive with the combination. There is one study of ketamine/propofol in Emergency Department (ED) procedural sedation which demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of the combination, but did not compare it to any other agents or combinations. The investigators designed a randomized, placebo controlled study to compare propofol to propofol and ketamine for adequacy of sedation and respiratory depression in Emergency Department procedural sedation and analgesia. The investigators hypothesis was that the combination of propofol/ketamine would produce better sedation and/or less respiratory depression than propofol alone. Methods Study design The investigators conducted a randomized, prospective, double-blinded study of all patients receiving procedural sedation. From April 2007 until July 2009 in the ED of a 274 bed university teaching hospital. The study was approved by the University of Missouri's Institutional Review Board and informed consent was obtained from all participants.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01126957
Recruitment status
Terminated
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
107 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
1 Year and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

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Study timeline

Start date
Apr 30, 2007
Primary completion
Feb 28, 2010
Completion
Feb 28, 2010
Last update posted
Apr 23, 2023

2007 – 2010

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Missouri - Columbia dept. of Emergency Medicine Columbia Missouri 65212

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