Shivering Treatment After Cesarean Delivery: Meperidine vs. Dexmedetomidine

NCT03115047 ↗

Phase 3 Completed 80 enrolled University of Montreal Hospital Centre (CHUM)

RandomizedParallel-groupQuadruple-blindTreatment

Summary

Comparing two treatments for shivering after cesarean delivery for labor dystocia under epidural anesthesia.

Timeline

Start: 2017-05-07
Primary completion: 2020-08-19
Completion: 2020-08-20

Publications

Background Crowley LJ, Buggy DJ. Shivering and neuraxial anesthesia. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 2008 May-Jun;33(3):241-52. doi: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.11.006.
Background De Witte J, Sessler DI. Perioperative shivering: physiology and pharmacology. Anesthesiology. 2002 Feb;96(2):467-84. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200202000-00036. No abstract available.
Background Kranke P, Eberhart LH, Roewer N, Tramer MR. Pharmacological treatment of postoperative shivering: a quantitative systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Anesth Analg. 2002 Feb;94(2):453-60, table of contents. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200202000-00043.
Background Abdel-Ghaffar HS, Mohamed SA, Fares KM, Osman MA. Safety and Efficacy of Dexmedetomidine in Treating Post Spinal Anesthesia Shivering: A Randomized Clinically Controlled Dose-Finding Trial. Pain Physician. 2016 May;19(4):243-53.
Background Tsai YC, Chu KS. A comparison of tramadol, amitriptyline, and meperidine for postepidural anesthetic shivering in parturients. Anesth Analg. 2001 Nov;93(5):1288-92. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200111000-00052.
Background Mittal G, Gupta K, Katyal S, Kaushal S. Randomised double-blind comparative study of dexmedetomidine and tramadol for post-spinal anaesthesia shivering. Indian J Anaesth. 2014 May;58(3):257-62. doi: 10.4103/0019-5049.135031.
Background Saito T, Sessler DI, Fujita K, Ooi Y, Jeffrey R. Thermoregulatory effects of spinal and epidural anesthesia during cesarean delivery. Reg Anesth Pain Med. 1998 Jul-Aug;23(4):418-23. doi: 10.1016/s1098-7339(98)90017-7.
Background Crossley AW, Mahajan RP. The intensity of postoperative shivering is unrelated to axillary temperature. Anaesthesia. 1994 Mar;49(3):205-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1994.tb03422.x.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Dexmedetomidine	Other / unclassified	0.35 ug/kg	Intravenous
Comparator	Meperidine	Unknown	0.35 mg/kg	Intravenous

Indications

No indication recorded.