Testing ketamine and dexmedetomidine during lung surgery
Treatments studied
Part of Pain clinical trials.
This trial studies whether the anesthesia medicines ketamine and dexmedetomidine can improve care during elective lung (video-assisted) surgery. It may help with comfort during and after the operation, depending on how these medicines affect pain and recovery.
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Who can take part
- Be between 18 and 80 years old
- Be having planned lung surgery using video-assisted technique to remove part of the lung
- Be medically stable enough for routine anesthesia (ASA physical status I to III)
- Not plan to use a regional anesthesia block for pain after surgery
- Not take certain medicines before surgery, including beta-blockers and some chronic pain or nerve-pain medicines
- Not be pregnant, unable to consent, unable to communicate in the study language, or unwilling to join
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