Cognitive Dysfunction in Hypertensive Patients Having Spine Surgery
Completed
Conditions studied: Hypertension
In brief
While hypotension during general anesthesia has routinely been considered to be a tolerable abnormality with little clinical consequence, the proposed study takes the innovative approach of defining hypotensive events within the construct of a patient's own hypertensive status, fractional mean arterial blood pressure (fMAP). Because the investigators primary variable is within the control of anesthesia personnel, the study portends a potentially simple and easy to implement treatment. The introduction of neuropsychometric measures as the relevant evaluator of post-operative cognitive dysfunction is innovative, and may be more relevant to the average elderly patient than simple mortality.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01140854
- Run by
- Columbia University
- People needed
- 179
- Starts
- 2009-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2014-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-06-04
Who can join
Age: 60 and older, up to 90. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- elective spine surgery
- > 60 years old
- < 5 hours of surgery
- microdiskectomy
- 1-2 levels of spinal laminectomies
You may not qualify if…
- transfusions
- > 5 hours of surgery
- > 2 levels of laminectomies
- spinal instrumentation
Where it is running
- Columbia University — New York, New York, United States
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