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EEG and Auditory Evoked Potentials During Local Anesthesia

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Technical University of Munich

Status and phase

Unknown
Phase 4

Conditions

Healthy

Treatments

Drug: Prilocaine
Drug: Propofol

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00408941
1505/06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present study was to investigate the sensitivity of AEP (auditory evoked potentials) to muscular artefacts using sedation and local anesthesia.

Full description

Spontaneous or evoked electrical brain activity is increasingly used to monitor general anesthesia. During alertness, surgery and anesthesia the quality of AEP recordings may be reduced by artefacts. This poses the question to what extent AEP are sensitive for muscular artefacts. High frequency artefacts can have its seeds in muscles and in technical instruments in the operating room. Therefore, the study will take place under the terms of laboratory.

The present study was designed to measure the influence of muscular artefacts on AEP under propofol sedation with or without local anesthesia in the area of the electrodes.

If artefacts influence AEP, which are used to measure anesthesia, it is particularly interesting with regard to clinical application. AEP as a measure of "anesthetic depth" may not only reflect brain, but also muscular and high frequency activity. Therefore, while using muscle relaxants, the AEP of an awake patient may indicate deep anesthesia, because muscle signals are absent.

Sex

Male

Ages

18 to 35 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status 1-2

Exclusion criteria

  • drugs that effect the central nervous system
  • neurological or psychiatric deceases
  • contraindications against use of propofol or local anesthesia

Trial design

Primary purpose

Diagnostic

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Crossover Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Gerhard Schneider, MD; Sabine Paprotny, MD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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