NCT05550714

Choice of Anesthesia in Microelectrode Recording Guided Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease

Choice of Anesthesia in Microelectrode Recording Guided Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease (CHAMPION)：A Randomized Controlled, Non-Inferiority Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 188 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Beijing Tiantan Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Subthalamic nucleus (STN)-deep brain stimulation (DBS) under general anesthesia has been applied to PD patients who cannot tolerate awake surgery, but general anesthesia will affect the electrical signal in microelectrode recording (MER) to some degree. This study is a prospective randomized controlled, noninferiority study, open label, endpoint outcome evaluator blinded, two-arm study. Parkinson's disease patients undergoing STN-DBS are randomly divided into a conscious sedation group (dexmedetomidine) and a general anesthesia group (desflurane). Normalized root mean square (NRMS) is used to compare the difference of neuronal activity between the two groups. The primary outcome is the percentage of high NRMS recorded by the MER signal (with the average NRMS recorded by MER after entering the STN greater than 2.0). The secondary outcomes are the NRMS, length of the STN, number of MER tracks, and differences in clinical outcomes 6 months after the operation.

Detailed description

STN-DBS under general anesthesia has been applied to PD patients who cannot tolerate awake surgery, but general anesthesia will affect the electrical signal in microelectrode recording (MER) to some degree. At present, there are some studies on the effects of desflurane on neuronal signal amplitude and discharge characteristics during STN-DBS in PD patients but there is no definite conclusion. This study compares the influence of MER mapping during STN-DBS and the differences in postoperative clinical outcomes between desflurane general anesthesia and conscious sedation anesthesia to explore alternative anesthesia for DBS in PD patients who cannot tolerate local anesthesia or conscious sedation and to provide feasible anesthesia techniques for the application of MER during DBS under general anesthesia. This study is a prospective randomized controlled, noninferiority study, open label, endpoint outcome evaluator blinded, two-arm study. Parkinson's disease patients undergoing STN-DBS are randomly divided into a conscious sedation group (dexmedetomidine) and a general anesthesia group (desflurane). The primary outcome is the percentage of high NRMS recorded by the MER signal (with the average NRMS recorded by MER after entering the STN greater than 2.0), which is used to compare the differences in neuronal electrical activities between conscious sedation and general anesthesia via desflurane groups. The secondary outcomes are the NRMS, length of the subthalamic nucleus, number of MER tracks, and differences in clinical outcomes 6 months after the operation.

Conditions

• PD - Parkinson's Disease
• Dexmedetomidine
• Desflurane
• Deep Brain Stimulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	general anesthesia	The patients did not use any preoperative sedative drugs and were given sufentanil citrate 0.1-0.2 µg/kg, cisatracurium 0.2 mg/kg and propofol 1.5-2.0 mg/kg during anesthesia induction. After the patients were unconscious, oral endotracheal intubation was performed. Anesthesiologists should continuously monitor PetCO2 and maintain PetCO2 at 30-35 mmHg. During the operation, patients are treated with remifentanil, cisatracurium, and desflurane inhalation at 0.5-1.0 minimum alveolar concentration (MAC). In the MER process, the desflurane concentration is adjusted to maintain 0.5-0.6 MAC. If the desflurane concentration needs to be adjusted to less than 0.5 MAC during MER for various reasons, remedial measures will be implemented.
DRUG	Conscious sedation	A loading dose of DEX 0.5 µg/kg was infused intravenously at a constant speed within 15 min after the patients entered the operating room, and the DEX maintenance dose was infused at 0.2-0.5 µg/kg/h until the end of the first stage (deep-brain stimulation implantation) of the operation. Maintain the BIS value at 60-80.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-15
• Primary completion: 2024-03-26
• Completion: 2024-09-30
• First posted: 2022-09-22
• Last updated: 2024-08-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China