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Abstract
Objectives To examine the efficacy of intratracheal dexmedetomidine (Dex) injection for the prevention of the laryngeal response on emergence from general anaesthesia following gynaecological laparoscopic surgery.
Design Prospective, randomised, double-blinded, controlled trial.
Setting A general hospital, Guangdong Province, China.
Participants All patients who underwent elective laparoscopic gynaecological surgery, aged 18–60 years old, 40–80 kg in weight, American Society of Anesthesiologists class I–II were eligible. Patients were excluded if they had respiratory disease, heart disorders which might represent risk factors of potential complications of Dex such as bradycardia, heart block, coronary heart disease, uncontrolled hypertension or the long-term use of sedative drugs.
Intervention Patients were randomly allocated to either receive intratracheal Dex (DT), intravenous Dex (DV) or intravenous saline (CON, n=30, respectively). In the DT and DV groups, Dex (0.5 µg/kg) was diluted and mixed in 1 or 20 mL of saline, respectively, and injected via the intratracheal or intravenous route 30 min before the completion of the surgery.
Outcome measures The primary outcome was the coughing extent among the three groups. Secondary outcomes included awareness time, extubation time, postoperative visual analogue scale and Steward recovery score.
Results Compared with the CON group, the extent of coughing was significantly reduced in both the DV group and the DT group. Furthermore, the mean time to awareness (13.4 (4.3) vs 8.8 (2.9), p<0.001) and the extubation time (14.3 (4.3) vs 8.4 (3.6), p<0.001) were reduced in the DT group. Patients in the DT group also experienced better early recovery quality and less pain than those in the CON group. Furthermore, intratracheal Dex administration contributed to improved stability in haemodynamics with no significant side effects.
Conclusions Intratracheal Dex administration may avoid untoward laryngeal responses for patients emerging from general anaesthesia after gynaecological laparoscopy.
Trial registration number ChiCTR-IOR-15007611.
- intratracheal
- dexmedetomidine
- laryngeal response
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FW and ZH contributed equally.
Contributors FW wrote the research protocol and oversaw the study conduct. HXZ and XYX helped conduct the study, and performed data collection. WPS and CLL performed the statistical analysis. ZPL helped write the manuscript. ZMH and CJC drafted the research protocol and wrote the manuscript.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Patient consent Not required.
Ethics approval Institutional Review Board of the First People’s Hospital of Huizhou City (approval number: 2015006).
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Data sharing statement No additional data are available.