General Anesthesia vs. Local Anesthesia in Stereotaxy

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• Conditions: Brain Lesion, Stereotactic Biopsy
• Interventions: Procedure: general anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy; Procedure: local anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy

• Registration Number: NCT01515852
• Lead Sponsor: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital

Brief Summary

Examination of stress level in general anesthesia in comparison to local anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy

Detailed Description

Stereotactic biopsy is routinely performed under local or general anesthesia. The advantage of local anesthesia might be reduction in cardiac and pulmonal complications, reduction of surgical time, and reduction of hospital stay. On the other hand it has been postulated that intraoperative seizures are avoided by general anesthesia and that brain tumor surgery is perceived in the public as psychological and physical stress.Therefor we postulate that patients undergoing stereotactic biopsies in local anesthesia show a higher stress level than patients operated under general anesthesia.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-01
• Study First Submitted: 2012-01-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-01-23
• Study First Posted: 2012-01-24
• Status Verified: 2013-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-02-20
• Last Update Posted: 2013-02-21
• Primary Completion: 2014-01
• Study Completion: 2014-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

• planned stereotactic biopsy
• age > 18 years

Exclusion Criteria

• pregnancy
• anxiety disorder
• impaired consciousness

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Stress level after general anesthesia	general anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy	-
Stress level after local anesthesia	local anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
PTSS-10	Three days after operation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University; 🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main, Germany