Intraoperative Blood Pressure and Cognitive Performance

Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Cognitive Performance

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00827385

0809009986

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to prospectively determine the association between incidence of neurological morbidity and minimum fractional blood pressure reached during laminectomy procedures under general anesthesia in hypertensive and normotensive subjects 40 years old and older.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 40+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• English as first language, or as a learned language as long as the patient is proficient
• No history of any neurological disease with the exception of patients without functional impairment who suffered a single episode of transient ischemic attack
• No history of axis I psychiatric diagnosis or drug abuse
• 40 years old or older
• Undergoing laminectomy under general anesthesia
• Must not take antihypertensive medication for purposes other than treatment of hypertension

Exclusion criteria

• Anyone who do not fit the inclusion criteria.

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

hypertensive

normotensive