Post-craniotomy emergence hypertension is a common phenomenon that may predispose to development of intracranial hematoma and cerebral edema.The aim of this study is to compare the safety and efficacy of Mgso4 versus lidocaine infusion for control of emergence hypertension after craniotomy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
90
Magnesium sulphate 50 mg/kg over 10 minutes loading followed by 15mg/kg/hr infusion. .
lidocaine hydrochloride 1.5mg/kg loading followed by 2mg/kg/hr infusion
Normal saline infusion with the same rate of infusion as the study drugs
Ahmed ELbadawy
Cairo, Egypt
RECRUITINGpostcraniotomy emergence hypertension response to the study drugs
The number of the patients who have systolic blood pressure below 140 mmH during emergence of anesthesia after craniotomy for brain tumors in each group
Time frame: 4hours
Recovery time
Time till discharge from PACU
Time frame: 2 hours
Incidence of side effects of the used drugs
measure of safety
Time frame: 4 hours
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