Is Anesthetic Loss of Consciousness a Top Down or Bottom up Phenomenon. What Does the Neurologic Examination Say?.

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• Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
• Main ID: NCT03140982
• Date of registration: 10/04/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Universidad del Desarrollo
• Public title: Is Anesthetic Loss of Consciousness a Top Down or Bottom up Phenomenon. What Does the Neurologic Examination Say?. Top&Bottom
• Scientific title: Is Anesthetic Loss of Consciousness a Cortical or Brainstem Phenomenon? What Does the Neurological Examination Say?
• Date of first enrolment: June 1, 2016
• Target sample size: 16
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03140982
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Chile

Contacts

• Name: Pablo Lavados, MD
• Affiliation: Clinica Alemana Comité Cientifico

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: ASA 1-2 patients programmed for elective surgery, normal neurologic
examination -

Exclusion Criteria: neurologic illness, receiving drugs that affect Central Nervous System
during the last 48 hours



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Anesthesia; Functional

Intervention(s)

Diagnostic Test: FOUR coma scale and frontal espectrograpy evaluation

Primary Outcome(s)

loss of consciousness a cortical or brainsteam phenomenon [Time Frame: 1 year]

Secondary Outcome(s)

evaluation of the alfa band behavior after fast and slow inductions [Time Frame: 1 year]

Secondary ID(s)

Centro Bioetica 2016-05

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors