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Clinical Trials/NL-OMON30090
NL-OMON30090Not yet recruitingPhase 3

The Impact of Intraoperative Carbon Dioxide Wound Ventilation on Cerebral Microembolic Load during Aortic Arch Surgery : a Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial using Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound - Carbon Dioxide Micro-Embolism Study

St. Antonius Ziekenhuis0 sites30 target enrollmentStarted: TBDLast updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Phase 3
Status
Not yet recruiting
Enrollment
30

Study Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Study Design

Study Type
Interventional

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
18 to 99 (—)

Inclusion Criteria

  • all patients accepted for elective surgery on the ascending aorta and aortic arch via median sternotomy

Exclusion Criteria

  • - emergency operation (including type A dissection)
  • - patients with a difficult transtemporal acoustic ultrasound *bone window*
  • - patients with claustrophobia and therefore unwilling to have magnetic resonance brain imaging or that have other contra-indications for this investigation (pacemakers, etc.)
  • - patients with a more than 60% stenosis or occlusion of one or both carotid arteries
  • - intraoperative technical failure of TCD registration

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