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Study aim
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Comparison the Effectiveness of intravenous Ketamine and Precedex in the Relaxation of Pediatric Patients referred to Emergency Department
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Design
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Clinical trial of two groups with blind and randomized parallel form
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Settings and conduct
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This study was performed on children referred to emergency department of Imam Reza Hospital and Hasheminejad Hospital in Mashhad.In the group (A) 1.5-2 mg / kg, ketamine is injected intravenously once a day. In group (B), 2μg / kg Precedex drug will be injected within 10 minutes as the initial dose and then 2μg / kg Precedex will be injected intravenously as a second dose. Injections will be done by the investigator.Information about each patient, including age, sex, kind of drug that used for sedation, time duration to being sedate and recovery time using the Ramsy scale, will be recorded in the information form .The vital signs include BP, PR, RR, O2Sat, and the Ramsy scale of the patients will be measured at onset, 10 minutes after the injection, before the beginning of repair, and after the end of repairing the injury. patients and assessor will be blinded.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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patients with the condition of needing a sedation to repair the injury and the age group of 2 to 12 years will be included in the study.Patients with unstable vital signs, patients with uncontrolled bleeding, deep tissue damage such as tendons and main vessels, respiratory infections, drug allergy , and patients with a history using of analgesic and sedative drugs
are excluded from Study.
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Intervention groups
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n the group (A) 1.5-2 mg / kg, ketamine is injected intravenously once a day. In group (B), 2μg / kg Precedix drug will be injected within 10 minutes intravenously as the initial dose and then 2μg / kg Precedix will be injected intravenously.
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Main outcome variables
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time duration to being sedate and recovery time