A Study to Compare Neostigmine vs Sugammadex in Length of PACU Stay in Patients Undergoing Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery

Virtua Health

Status and phase: Terminated; Phase 4

Conditions: Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting; Respiratory Conditions Due to Other External Agents

Treatments: Drug: Sugammadex; Drug: Neostigmine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03276026

VirtuaHealth

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will track bariatric patients who received sugammadex versus neostigmine in the post anesthesia care unit until discharge and assess their length of stay and possible nausea / vomiting / hypoxia episodes.

Full description

During their preadmission testing, patients planning to undergo sleeve gastrectomy bariatric surgeries will be consented (by having them sign consent forms) and recruited for the study. A trained individual will track these patients after the surgery in the post anesthesia care unit until discharge and assess their length of stay and possible nausea / vomiting. The exact time the investigators are looking to assess is patient arrival to the post anesthesia care unit until patient ready for discharge when the anesthesiologist writes the anesthesia evaluation. The time the reversal agent is administered during the start of skin closure until patient medically ready to leave the post anesthesia care unit will also be taken into account. Blinded to the treatment group, the trained individual will ask each patient every 15 minutes after arrival to the post anesthesia care unit if they are experiencing nausea or vomiting. As an exploratory measure, the trained individual will assess the patient at these same times (every 15 minutes) and determine their oxygen saturation. The investigators will take all the data from the observations and use statistical means to measure what is significant. A discussion and conclusion will follow. Finally, the principal investigator will submit the study outcomes to an anesthesia journal.

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients having sleeve gastrectomy
• Surgeries performed by a particular surgeon - Dr. Sam Wasser
• Body Mass Index greater than 35
• American Society of Anesthesiologists Score II and III patients

Exclusion criteria

• Patients having a different type of bariatric surgery including but not limited to duodenal switch, gastric bypass, hand-assisted laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
• Sleeve gastrectomy's performed by other surgeons than Dr. Sam Wasser.
• Pregnancy
• Allergic to sugammadex, Zofran or scopolamine
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Asthma that is uncontrolled
• American Society of Anesthesiologists Score I, IV, V patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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68 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group/Neostigmine

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group will be the 63 patients who receive Neostigmine in a dose of 5mg, along with the anti-cholinergic glycopyrrolate 0.6mg.

Treatment:

Drug: Neostigmine

Study Group/Sugammadex

Active Comparator group

Description:

63 patients will be given Sugammadex in a dose of 2mg/kg if the train of four twitch count is 2 and 4mg/kg if the twitch response has reached 1-2 post-tetanic counts with no twitch response to train of four.

Treatment:

Drug: Sugammadex