Lidocaine as Local Anesthetics in Children Under Ketamine Sedation

Summary

Ketamine seems an obvious choice in the setting of an emergency department in laceration repair. Lidocaine is the local anesthetics widespread used. Ketamine leads to dissociative amnesia. Theoretically , lidocaine is not useful in laceration repair using ketamine. However, lidocaine is used with ketamine in many emergency department. The investigators compare lidocaine with placebo as an adjunct to ketamine sedation in children undergoing primary closure

Timeline

Start

2013-12

Primary completion

2018-10

Completion

2018-10

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.