Anesthetic Depth and Postoperative Delirium Trial - 2

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Delirium, Cognitive Disorders

In brief

Recent limited evidence suggests that anesthetic depth may influence postoperative cognitive outcomes, however, the mechanism between this association is unclear.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01983384

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

205

Starts

2015-07-01

Expected to finish

2017-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-18

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 65 years and older of age undergoing non-cardiac surgery, requiring hospital stay of 2 or more days.

You may not qualify if…

• patients who are not fluent in English or cannot provide informed consent
• patients who may not tolerate either light or deep anesthesia (history of heart failure, coronary artery disease, substance abuse)
• history of intraoperative recall or awareness during anesthesia
• pathologies of the brain which may affect EEG monitoring
• patients who are anticipated to have consecutive surgery within 3 days of first procedure
• patients who have had surgery with general anesthesia in the past 30 days

Where it is running

• University of California, San Francisco Medical Center — San Francisco, California, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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