NCT01075490.

Trial name or title	Neonatal spinal anaesthesia: effects of the addition of clonidine
Methods	Randomised controlled trial
Participants	Preterm and term infants, requiring inguinal hernia or lower limbs surgery. Sample size: 120
Interventions	Addition of clonidine 1 μg/kg or saline to bupivacaine 1 mg/kg as spinal anaesthesia
Outcomes	Primary outcome: number of rescue general anaesthesia Secondary outcomes: apnoea and desaturation occurrence; duration of spinal anaesthesia
Starting date	November 2006
Contact information	Alain Rochette, Montpellier, France; E‐mail: a‐rochette@chu‐montpellier.fr
Notes	We tried to contact the study authors without success. It is possible that this study has been completed and corresponds to 1 of the 'Excluded studies'.