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Administrative data

NCT number NCT01809041
Other study ID # ZZuo-POCD-1
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase Phase 4
First received
Last updated
Start date March 2013
Est. completion date April 2019

Study information

Verified date June 2023
Source Sun Yat-sen University
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Post-operative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is a fairly well-documented clinical phenomenon. Most patients will receive general anesthesia during surgery. Two groups of general anesthetics are used for this purpose. We hypothesize that the incidence of POCD is not different in patients received intravenous anesthetics only or sevoflurane (a volatile anesthetic-based general anesthesia) for their major intra-abdominal surgery.


Description:

Patients who are 60 years old or older for laparoscopic abdominal surgery will be randomly assigned into two groups: 1) sevoflurane-based general anesthesia group, and 2) propofol-based general anesthesia group. Each group will need 221 patients to detect 1/3 of decrease or increase in the rate of POCD of one group compared with another group at about one week after surgery, assuming the overall rate of POCD at this time is about 40% at this time. Considering about 10% loss to follow-up, we will have 250 patients in each group. In addition, investigators will need 184 subjects in the control group. The data of these control subjects will be used to normalize the data of the two studied groups to diagnose POCD. The subjects in control groups will also be elderly but without the exposure to anesthesia and surgery.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 684
Est. completion date April 2019
Est. primary completion date April 2019
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 60 Years to 100 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: 1. major elective gastrointestinal, gynecological, prostate or bladder surgery patients who are = 60 years old. 2. the surgery is laparoscopic surgery and is expected to last for = 2 hours under general anesthesia and the patient will stay in hospital for at least 7 days after surgery. 3. lack of serious hearing and vision impairment and be able to read so that neurobehavioral tests can be performed. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients are not expected to be alive for longer than 3 months. 2. Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) [18] score = 23. 3. history of dementia, psychiatric illness or any diseases of central nervous system. 4. current use of sedatives or antidepressant. 5. alcoholism and drug dependence. 6. patients previously included in this study (for patients who have second intra-abdominal surgery during the study period). 7. difficult to follow up or patients with poor compliance. 8. uncontrolled hypertension (> 180/100 mmHg)

Study Design


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Intervention

Drug:
Sevoflurane

propofol

remifentanil


Locations

Country Name City State
China Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital Guangzhou Guangdong

Sponsors (8)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Sun Yat-sen University Baxter (China) Investment Co. Ltd., First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, First People's Hospital of Foshan, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, China, Huaqiao Hospital in Guangzhou, China, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

China, 

References & Publications (5)

Monk TG, Weldon BC, Garvan CW, Dede DE, van der Aa MT, Heilman KM, Gravenstein JS. Predictors of cognitive dysfunction after major noncardiac surgery. Anesthesiology. 2008 Jan;108(1):18-30. doi: 10.1097/01.anes.0000296071.19434.1e. — View Citation

Newman MF, Kirchner JL, Phillips-Bute B, Gaver V, Grocott H, Jones RH, Mark DB, Reves JG, Blumenthal JA; Neurological Outcome Research Group and the Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Research Endeavors Investigators. Longitudinal assessment of neurocognitive function after coronary-artery bypass surgery. N Engl J Med. 2001 Feb 8;344(6):395-402. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200102083440601. Erratum In: N Engl J Med 2001 Jun 14;344(24):1876. — View Citation

Rasmussen LS, Johnson T, Kuipers HM, Kristensen D, Siersma VD, Vila P, Jolles J, Papaioannou A, Abildstrom H, Silverstein JH, Bonal JA, Raeder J, Nielsen IK, Korttila K, Munoz L, Dodds C, Hanning CD, Moller JT; ISPOCD2(International Study of Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction) Investigators. Does anaesthesia cause postoperative cognitive dysfunction? A randomised study of regional versus general anaesthesia in 438 elderly patients. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2003 Mar;47(3):260-6. doi: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2003.00057.x. — View Citation

Steinmetz J, Christensen KB, Lund T, Lohse N, Rasmussen LS; ISPOCD Group. Long-term consequences of postoperative cognitive dysfunction. Anesthesiology. 2009 Mar;110(3):548-55. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e318195b569. — View Citation

Williams-Russo P, Sharrock NE, Mattis S, Szatrowski TP, Charlson ME. Cognitive effects after epidural vs general anesthesia in older adults. A randomized trial. JAMA. 1995 Jul 5;274(1):44-50. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Other Time for bowel function return after surgery when bowel movement is returned. up to 2 weeks after the surgery
Other Degree of increase of stress hormones blood concentrations of stress hormones. Up to 1 day after the surgery
Other Length of hospital stay duration of staying in the hospital Up to 3 months after the surgery
Other colorectal cancer progress Migration, invasion and metastasis of the cancer Up to one year after the surgery
Other degree of systemic inflammation inflammatory cytokines in the blood Up to 7 days after surgery
Other aging biochemical markers such as length of the telomere Up to 7 days after surgery
Primary Number of patients with postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) (POCD is a composite outcome measure) Incidence of POCD in patients will be determined by a set of cognitive tests. At 7 days after the surgery
Secondary Number of patients with postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) (POCD is a composite outcome measure) Incidence of POCD in patients will be determined by a set of cognitive tests. At 3 months after the surgery