Intraoperative Blood Pressure and Cognitive Performance

Completed

Conditions studied: Cognitive Performance, Hypertension

In brief

The purpose of this study is to prospectively determine the association between incidence of neurological morbidity and minimum fractional blood pressure reached during laminectomy procedures under general anesthesia in hypertensive and normotensive subjects 40 years old and older.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00827385

Run by

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

People needed

100

Starts

2009-01-01

Expected to finish

2014-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-02-04

Who can join

Age: 40 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• English as first language, or as a learned language as long as the patient is proficient
• No history of any neurological disease with the exception of patients without functional impairment who suffered a single episode of transient ischemic attack
• No history of axis I psychiatric diagnosis or drug abuse
• 40 years old or older
• Undergoing laminectomy under general anesthesia
• Must not take antihypertensive medication for purposes other than treatment of hypertension

You may not qualify if…

• Anyone who do not fit the inclusion criteria.

Where it is running

• NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College — New York, New York, United States

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