General Anesthesia vs. Local Anesthesia in Stereotaxy (GALAXY)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Brain Lesion, Stereotactic Biopsy

Treatments: Procedure: general anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy; Procedure: local anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01515852

JohannWGUH_GALAXY

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Full 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.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• planned stereotactic biopsy
• age > 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy
• anxiety disorder
• impaired consciousness

Trial design

80 participants in 2 patient groups

Stress level after general anesthesia

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: general anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy

Stress level after local anesthesia

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: local anesthesia in stereotactic biopsy