Brain Oxygenation Monitoring in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Neurological Manifestations

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether intraoperative brain oxygenation monitoring in cardiac surgery patients is effective in reducing postoperative neurologic and neurocognitive dysfunction.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00137527

Run by

Atlantic Health System

People needed

250

Starts

2004-02-01

Expected to finish

2009-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-01-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Primary coronary artery bypass surgery
• Ages 18-90
• Voluntary participation with signed informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• An unwillingness to participate in the study
• Inability to obtain informed consent
• Expressive or receptive aphasia
• Inability to correctly perform the neurocognitive tests preoperatively
• Inability to correctly perform the saccadic and anti-saccadic eye movement tests preoperatively
• Non-English speaking candidates
• Patients for whom it is known that follow-up will be improbable
• Previous cardiac surgery
• Concomitant procedures
• Pre-existing psychotic disorders
• Patients with active alcohol (ETOH) abuse requiring emergent surgery
• Patients scoring 2 or higher on the CAGE evaluation
• Mini-Mental State Exam preoperative score of 23 or less
• Severe visual or auditory disorders
• Parkinson's disease

Where it is running

• Morristown Memorial Hospital — Morristown, New Jersey, United States

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