The Effect of Low Dose Intra-operative Ketamine on Closed-loop Controlled General Anesthesia

Summary

Closed-loop control of anesthesia involves using feedback from a measure of clinical effect to continuously adjust drug infusion rates. As a result, anesthetic drugs are delivered at a variable rate that is frequently personalized to each individual patient. The aim is to provide greater stability at an optimal depth of anesthesia, reducing the occurrence of under- or overdosing, with the goal of ultimately improving patient outcomes. The purpose of this randomized, controlled equivalence trial is to compare controller performance during closed-loop controlled induction and maintenance of total intravenous anesthesia, using iControl system, with the addition of a low (analgesic) dose of ketamine versus saline control.

Timeline

Start

2018-03-13

Primary completion

2018-10-17

Completion

2018-10-17

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.