Clinical Trial: Using Lidocaine or Dexmedetomidine to Help Control Blood Pressure Spikes From a Tourniquet During Knee Surgery
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Tourniquet Hypertension
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Intraoperative Infusion of Lidocaine vs. Dexmedetomidine for Decreasing Tourniquet Induced Hypertension (TIH) in Ambulatory Arthroscopic Knee Surgeries Under General Anesthesia
Brief Summary:
Knee pain is very common, and more people are having minor knee surgeries done through a small camera (arthroscopy), often as outpatients.During these surgeries, a device called a tourniquet is used to reduce bleeding by stopping blood flow to the leg.However, this can sometimes cause a sharp rise in blood pressure-a condition known as tourniquet-induced hypertension (TIH), which happens in about 67% of patients under general anesthesia.this study looked at two different drugs-Dexmedetomidine and Lidocaine- to see…
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