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While the effectiveness of remimazolam besylate in pediatric anesthesia requires additional confirmation, sevoflurane has been linked to complications like agitation and delirium upon recovery. This protocol describes a planned assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial to evaluate the anesthetic impacts, recovery features, and safety profiles of remimazolam compared to sevoflurane in children between the ages of 3 and 12 undergoing circumcision.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      This single-center, prospective, assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial will be conducted at the Wanzhou District Maternal and Child Health Hospital. One hundred children (aged 3\u201312 years, ASA I-II) scheduled for painless circumcision will be randomly allocated to receive either intravenous remimazolam besylate (Group R,\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200950) or inhaled sevoflurane (Group S,\n                      <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u200950) for general anesthesia. Both groups will receive a penile root block with 1% lidocaine. Primary outcomes include time to achieve general anesthesia (MOAA\/S\u2009\u2264\u20091) and emergence time. Secondary outcomes include anesthesia success rate, intraoperative interventions, hemodynamic changes, respiratory complications, emergence delirium (PAED scale), pain scores (FLACC), and guardian anxiety levels. Due to inherent differences in drug delivery methods, only outcome assessors and data analysts will be blinded. Exploratory subgroup analyses by age (3\u20136 vs. 7\u201312 years) will be conducted but are not powered for definitive conclusions. Statistical analysis will use SPSS version 26.0 with significance at\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Ethics and dissemination<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The Reproductive Ethics Committee at the Wanzhou District Maternal and Child Health Hospital has approved this protocol (Reference No. 2024-44). Consent from the legal guardians will be secured. Findings will be shared via publications in journals and presentations at academic conferences.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Trial registration<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This trial has been registered with the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR) (Registration number: ChiCTR2500095974; Registration date: January 15, 2025).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12871-025-03378-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,28]],"date-time":"2025-10-28T13:49:50Z","timestamp":1761659390000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Comparison of the anesthetic efficacy and recovery quality of remimazolam besylate versus sevoflurane for pediatric circumcision: a single-center, prospective, assessor-blinded, randomized controlled study protocol"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-1853-9358","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-2779-6444","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shuang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linyun","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Qingjun","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haishan","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yunbo","family":"Mo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,10,28]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"3378_CR1","first-page":"e756","volume":"130","author":"American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision","year":"2012","unstructured":"American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision. 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