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Propofol as a protective agent in postoperative attentional changes. Prospective clinical trial

Not Applicable
Conditions
Adverse anesthetic effects and therapeutic gases
R41.8
Registration Number
RBR-6xhp399
Lead Sponsor
Hospital Universitário Gaffree e Guinle
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot yet recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Age above18 years; signing of the Free and Informed Consent Form about participation in the study; physical status ASA (American Society of Anesthesia) I; II and III ( one, two and three); patients undergoing general anesthesia for laparoscopic cholecystectomy and/or thyroidectomy; lasting less than 300 minutes. And control group with 60 patients not submitted to surgery.

Exclusion Criteria

ASA(American Society of Anesthesia) scale four; presence of neurological or psychiatric disease affecting cognition; continuous use of: corticosteroids; antipsychotics; opioids, zolpiden; tricyclic antidepressants; smoking; alcoholism; severe liver disease; renal failure (creatinine clearance under 100); inability to perform neuropsychometric tests independentes. The following perioperative situations exclude research participants: Postoperative delirium; report of anesthetic complications, including hypoxemia; hypotension and deep anesthetic plane (BIS (Bispectral Index Scale) under thirty five); report of general anesthesia up to one year prior to surgery; previous cardiac or neurological surgeries; urgent surgeries or with intraoperative surgical complications (bleeding and reoperation).

Study & Design

Study Type
Intervention
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To assess postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) in relation to the choice of anesthetic technique in medium-sized surgeries. Through neuropsychological assessment with the Computerized Attention Test. In this test, we can measure the following variables: 1. Reaction time, 2. Reaction time variability, 3. Omission errors and 4. Commission errors. There are 4 independent variables, evaluated in the same test, where the alteration of any one of them shows attentional alteration. The analysis of the results is performed by comparing the individual&apos;s results with the standardization sample in the test manual paired by sex and age, with a difference of 1.5 standard deviation between the groups. The parameters that may be altered are:<br>Intrinsic alert; Ability to focus and sustain attention; Inhibition of inadequate responses in the postoperative period.<br><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Aplication of other tests that prove the change in cognition related to anesthesia, such as:COWAT (Controlled oral word association test); Minimental, symbol digit modality test; MoCa (Montreal Cognition Test).<br>Comparing preoperative tests with those performed at 24h, 7 days and 30 days after surgery.<br>
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