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Study aim
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Evaluating midazolam effect before and after seizure occurrence on post ECT complications
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Design
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This study is a parallel randomised double-blind clinical trial designed and performed on 69 patients which is currently in phase 3.
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Settings and conduct
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This study is a double blinded clinical trial designed and performed in Alzahra hospital on patients with 13 to 19 years of age. Patients will be randomly divided into 3 groups and they will be receiving the drug packages. Care providers who are responsible for drug injection and care providers who are responsible for monitoring the patients are completely unaware of the content of the packages. Patients will be monitored for blood pressure, oxygen saturation, pulse rate and electrocardiogram while they are receiving ECT and 5,10 and 15 minutes after that. After the patients are completely conscious they will be evaluated based on nausea, muscle pain and headache
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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The inclusion criteria include 6 to 18 years of age, having indications for ECT, written consent from parents, npo regimen ASA I&II and the exclusion criteria include patients who do not have a stable hemodynamic status and patients who are diagnosed with major diseases like asthma, drug allergies ,neuromuscular diseases, epilepsy, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
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Intervention groups
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Patients will be randomly divided into 3 groups: group A which receives midazolam with the routine drug regimen before ECT , group B which receives midazolam after ECT and group c which is considered as the control group and receives the routine drug regimen without midazolam.
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Main outcome variables
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Muscle pain, headache, nausea, tachycardia, bradycardia