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NCT06028126
The goal of this clinical trial is to assess whether the use of intermittent superficial parasternal intercostal plane blocks reduces opioid usage in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with median sternotomy. Participants randomized to the intervention group will receive the blocks with 0.2% ropivacaine administered via catheters placed in the superficial parasternal intercostal plane bilaterally under ultrasound guidance. Researchers will compare this group with a control group given 0.9% saline through similarly placed catheters. The primary outcome will be cumulative postoperative opioid use (measured as Milligram Morphine Equivalent (MME)) up to 72 hours following catheter insertion.
NCT05777187
Among patients with cognitive impairment (CI) that undergo surgery, the risk for developing postoperative delirium (POD) is high (50%) and associated with further morbidity and mortality. Yet, 30-40% of POD cases are preventable with perioperative management. This randomized pragmatic clinical trial aims to assess incidence of POD in adult surgical patients with CI, as well as provider adherence to a set of 12 perioperative best practice recommendations for perioperative management. Electronic health record (EHR) data will be used to identify patients as high risk for developing POD and clinical decision support (CDS) prompts within the EHR will display best practices. Cases will be randomized to either the control group, usual care or the intervention which includes the high-risk alert and best practice prompts.
NCT06510140
Post-operative delirium (POD) is known to be independently associated with pre-operative frailty, pre-operative cognitive status and per-operative ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG). However, no study has focused on the impact of these pre- and peri-operative outcomes on the prediction of Post-operative delirium (POD). Therefore, this study has been designed to assess the performance of a new score that includes pre-operative frailty, and per-operative ElectroEncephaloGram (EEG) in predicting post-operative delirium.
NCT06036095
Traditionally, general anesthesia is maintained with inhalational anesthesia (GAS), but there is a gap in knowledge regarding whether intravenous anesthesia (IV) can prevent deleterious postoperative outcomes in the geriatric surgical population. The goal of this clinical trial is to determine whether intravenous anesthesia (IV) leads to a decreased incidence of postoperative delirium (POD), postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD), and functional decline, and improved patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in older adults undergoing non-cardiac surgery when compared to the standard inhalational anesthesia (GAS). This single-center, 1:1 randomized, double-blind (patient \& outcome assessor) clinical trial will compare inhalational vs. intravenous anesthesia on POD, POCD, functional status, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and blood-based biomarkers in older patients undergoing elective, inpatient, non-cardiac surgery. Upon enrollment, 260 women and men ≥ 70 years undergoing elective noncardiac surgery under general anesthesia will be randomized to 2 groups: TIVA or GAS.
NCT06236854
Postoperative delirium (POD) is a frequent disorder of consciousness, arousal and attention in elderly patients following surgery. The glymphatic system is a newly discovered waste cleaning system of the brain. Glymphatic transport of CSF has been shown to be impaired by perioperative factors. Reduced glymphatic transport has been related to a vicious cycle of neuroinflammatory marker build-up, leading to increased glymphatic transport impairment, leading eventually to neuronal damage and hence cognitive impairment. Therefore, glymphatic transport impairment has been suggested to be an important mechanism underlying POD. But not everyone who undergoes surgery presents POD, so what makes certain patients susceptible to POD? It has been suggested that glymphatic transport may already be impaired at preoperative baseline, which, with the added burden of perioperative strain on the system, 'tilts' the patient into POD. The primary aim of the current study is to measure glymphatic transport in patients preoperatively and assess whether patients who present POD ('POD patients') show impairments in preoperative glymphatic transport, relative to patients who do not present POD ('noPOD patients'). Two aspects of glymphatic transport will be assessed using two noninvasive MR techniques - fast-acquisition BOLD-fMRI and DTI-MR. POD will be assessed using the 3D-CAM questionnaire and patients will also be assessed preoperatively for symptoms of depression, state/trait anxiety and cognitive status using standardised self-report measures.
NCT02692300
This study examines the potential link between deep levels of anesthesia and delirium.
NCT05688449
It has been shown in previous studies that burst suppression has an effect on the development of postoperative delirium (POD) and postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). With the development of technology, EEG-based anesthesia management is getting more and more attention. In particular, methods that reduce anesthetic drug consumption are expected to prevent POD and POCD by reducing burst suppression. There are studies that show that epidural analgesia applications reduce general anesthesia drug consumption in patients receiving general anesthesia. In this study, investigators want to investigate the effect of epidural analgesia combined with general anesthesia on burst suppression. POD and POCD development in these patients will be examined as secondary objectives.
NCT03053869
The purpose of this two-centre pilot research study is to establish the feasibility of conducting a full trial that seeks to determine if a cardiac anesthesia policy that uses alternatives to benzodiazepine medications is better at preventing delirium after cardiac surgery when compared with a cardiac anesthesia policy that uses benzodiazepine medications.
NCT00865202
Post-operative delirium is a common and deleterious complication in elderly patients. The investigators have previously found lower levels of serum tryptophan in post-operative elderly patients who developed delirium in comparison to post-operative elderly patients who did not develop delirium. The investigators hypothesize that post-operative supplementation of L-tryptophan will reduce the duration and incidence of post-operative delirium. This study is a double-blinded placebo controlled trial of L-tryptophan supplementation in post-operative ICU patients 60 years and older. The primary outcome measure is the comparison of duration of post-operative delirium in subjects who receive L-tryptophan supplementation versus a similar appearing control.