Cranial Electro Therapy Stimulation in Reducing Perioperative Anxiety

Stopped early · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Anxiety

In brief

Cranial electro stimulation (CES) provides safe, adequate, side-effect free sedation without excessive drowsiness in preoperative settings.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00928772

Run by

University of Oklahoma

People needed

115

Starts

2009-07-01

Expected to finish

2012-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-04-20

Who can join

Age: 50 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients of both genders between 50 and 90 years old scheduled for an outpatient "first eye" cataract phacoemulsification with topical anesthesia.
• ASA classification I II and III

You may not qualify if…

• ASA classification IV (patients with a chronic or severe disease).
• Hypersensitivity to midazolam or benzodiazepines
• acute narrow-angle glaucoma
• untreated open-angle glaucoma
• Patients with any sort of psychiatric or neurological disorder
• Patients on anti-anxiety medication
• Patients who have demand-type pacemakers installed before 1999* *Note: These are the exclusions listed for liability purposes by Alpha-Stim. There are no FDA exclusions.

Where it is running

• Oklahoma City VA Medical Center — Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States

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