About this trial
A comparison between precedex versus solumedrol as anti-inflammatory stress response inhibitors in patients undergoing on-pump CABG using different inflammatroy response parameters and the outcome of the drugs on the cognitive and cardiac status post extubation
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Age 21-60 years.
Sex: Both sexes.
American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status Class II, and III.
Scheduled for CABG on cardio-pulmonary bypass.
Disqualifiers
Declining to give a written informed consent.
History of allergy to the medications used in the study.
Psychiatric disorders.
Significant cognitive dysfunction.
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Normal saline
DrugAfter induction of anesthesia give 10 ml of normal saline then followed by infusion of normal saline till extubation of patient in ICU
Dexmedetomidine
DrugAfter induction of anesthesia give loading dose of precedex 1 mcg/kg diluted in 10 ml normal saline then attach syringe pump of precedex infusion of 0.5mcg/kg/hr till extubation in ICU
Methylprednisolone
DrugAfter induction of anesthesia give solumedrol of a dose 10mg/kg diluted in 10ml of normal saline followed by a normal saline infusion till the extubation of the patient in the ICU
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Induced inflammatory response
Effect of both drugs on attenuating induced inflammatory response
Secondary outcomes
Cognitive function
Assesment of post operative cognitive function and occurnce of post operative delerium using CAM-ICU score
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