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Pain Assessment During General Anesthesia

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Pain
Interventions
Drug: opioid (remifentanyl)
Registration Number
NCT01303471
Lead Sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Brief Summary

During general anesthesia, two treatments are used : hypnotic and opioid treatment. Opioid treatment is used for pain assessment.

The change in haemodynamic variables and clinical sign are evaluated during anesthesia for pain assessment but these changes are not specific every time.

The main of this study is to investigate the relationship between calculated compartment concentration of remifentanil (opioid) and the parameters from HRV (Heart Rate Variability) and APV (Arterial Pressure Variability) before a standard noxious stimulation during general anesthesia at calibrated hypnosis level.

Our hypothesis is that nociceptive stimulation would have reproductible effects on HRV, and that these effects would be blunted or abolished by by adequate analgesia. The current study is thus designed to analyse HRV and APV in patients with stable hypnosis, before and during nociceptive surgical stimulation, at different levels of analgesia.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
75
Inclusion Criteria
  • Adult patients under 55 years-old
  • ASA status 1 or 2
  • scheduled to undergo general anesthesia for different types of surgery (neurosurgical or medullar surgery, ear, nose or throat surgery or orthopedic surgery)
Exclusion Criteria
  • history of cardiac or autonomic disease
  • diabetes
  • obesity (BMI>30 kg/m2)
  • medication altering autonomic nervous system tone
  • history of eyes surgery

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
opioïdopioid (remifentanyl)Different levels of remifentanyl of each group during nociceptive stimulation
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change from baseline in HRV measurements during noxious stimulationbaseline and 5 minutes

Analyse of HRV is a widely used, non-invasive technique to assess autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. The typical spectral pattern of HRV includes two main spectral peaks : a low-freqency (LF) region, affected by both sympathetic and parasympathic activity, and a high-frequency (HF) peak centered at the respiratory frequency, which is associated with parasympathetic activity.

change from baseline in APV measurements during noxious stimulationbaseline and 5 minutes

Analyse of APV is a widely used, non-invasive technique to assess autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity. The typical spectral pattern of APV includes two main spectral peaks : a low-freqency (LF) region, affected by both sympathetic and parasympathic activity, and a high-frequency (HF) peak centered at the arterial pressure, which is associated with parasympathetic activity.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Change from baseline in pupil change during noxious stimulationbaseline and 5 minutes

pupil size will be monitored and recored using an infrared pupilometry system consisting of a camera, infrared lignt source, video monitor and video processing software, capturing pupil diameter as a real-time analogue signal (rate of 25 Hz). The pupil size variability will be used to estimate pain

change from baseline in heart rate during noxious stimulationbaseline and 5 minutes

heart rate will be recorded before induction of anesthesia, just before nociceptive stimulation, then every 30 seconds up to the end of the five minutes after nociceptive stimulation. The heart rate measurement will be used to estimate pain.

Change from baseline in BIS (Bispectral Index) during noxious stimulationbaseline and 5 minutes

bispectral index will be recorded before induction of anesthesia, just before nociceptive stimulation, then every 30 seconds up to the end of the five minutes after nociceptive stimulation. BIS will be used to estimate pain

change from baseline in systolic blood pressure during noxious baselinebaseline and 5 minutes

Systolic blood pressure will be recorded before induction of anesthesia, just before nociceptive stimulation, then every 30 seconds up to the end of the five minutes after nociceptive stimulation. Systolic blood pressure measurement will be used to estimate pain

Change from baseline in diastolic blood pressure during noxious stimulationbasline and 5 minutes

diastolic blood pressure will be recorded before induction of anesthesia, just before nociceptive stimulation, then every 30 seconds up to the end of the five minutes after nociceptive stimulation. diastolic blood pressure will be used to estimate pain

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU de Saint-Etienne

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Saint-Etienne, France

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