NCT01549873

Anesthesia During Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Scoliosis Patients

Anesthesia During Neurophysiologic Monitoring in Scoliosis Patients: Volatile Agents Versus Total Intravenous Anesthesia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nationwide Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

When patients have spinal surgery, electrodes are placed on the body to measure motor evoked potentials (MEP) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP). Many hospitals only use IV anesthesia because they feel that measuring MEP and SSEP is easier using IV anesthesia. At this hospital the investigators typically use inhaled anesthesia and are able to successfully measure MEP and SSEP. This is a study to find out if one method of anesthesia is better than the other for measuring MEP and SSEP.

Conditions

• Idiopathic Scoliosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	propofol	Propofol adjusted to maintain the bispectral index at 40-60.
DRUG	Desflurane	Desflurane adjusted to maintain the bispectral index at 40-60.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-04-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2012-03-09
• Last updated: 2015-02-26
• Results posted: 2015-02-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States