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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
40 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2015-05-31
2016-11-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Patients without acute lung injury are still ventilated with large -and perhaps too large- tidal volumes. A recent multicenter randomized controlled trial has concluded that the use of a lung-protective ventilation strategy in intermediate-risk and high-risk patients undergoing major abdominal surgery was associated with improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization . A multicentre randomized controlled trial on mechanical ventilation during general anesthesia for open abdominal surgery has concluded that an intraoperative protective ventilation strategy should include a low tidal volume and low PEEP, without recruitment maneuvers. In 52 patients undergoing general anesthesia for open thoracic surgery lung protective ventilation was associated with better intraoperative and postoperative oxygenation, and shorter duration of postoperative mechanical ventilation from ICU admission to its withdrawal.
In conclusion protective ventilation, with low tidal volumes and low PEEP, seems to be the gold standard for intra-operative mechanical ventilation during general anesthesia.
Mechanical ventilation represents an important tool to obtain cerebral de-bulking during neurosurgery by maintaining moderate hypocapnia and positive intra-thoracic pressure the lowest possible. For these reasons the application of PEEP with high tidal volume has been historically seen as unfavourable by neuro-anesthesiologists and neurosurgeons fearing transmission to intracranial compartment of high venous pressure values with consequent brain swelling and eventually cerebral perfusion pressure reduction.
Nevertheless, recent studies suggested that in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) PEEP seems to be well tolerated without deleterious intracranial effect and its role in the context of a protective ventilation protocol associated with low tidal volume, so with low expected intra-thoracic pressures, has never been studied in patients undergoing to general anesthesia for intracranial surgery of neoplasms.
The traditional high-volume-no-PEEP ventilation strategy, called this way because it consists of an higher tidal volumes than protective ventilation and no PEEP, in neurosurgery should be compared with the recently proposed protective ventilation in order to eventually assess possible differences on respiratory and neurological outcomes. At this purpose a pilot study is needed to determine the effect size and variability of possible differences in dural tension between the two ventilation strategies.
Null hypothesis: Shifting from traditional ventilation protocol to a protective one during general anesthesia does not change levels of dural tension in patients undergone to elective neurosurgery for brain neoplasms.
To determine the effect size and variability of dural tension differences in patients undergoing intracranial neurosurgery and ventilated with either traditional or protective ventilation.
Mono-centric, double blind, 1:1 randomized, 2x2 crossover clinical trial. Patients will be randomized to receive either traditional or protective ventilation as the first ventilation. Randomization will be performed by a computer generated sequence. The results of the randomization will be transferred in sealed envelopes, one for each patient. When the patient will be randomized in the study, the envelop will be open and the piece of information about the randomization present in the envelop will be followed by the operating room anesthesiologist.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
CROSSOVER
PREVENTION
DOUBLE
Study Groups
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Traditional to protective ventilation
Traditional ventilation will be set with 9 ml/kg with predicted body weight of tidal volumes and no PEEP. Arterial CO2 partial pressure will be maintained between 30 and 35 mmHg. After intracranial pressure measurement ventilation will be switched to protective.
Traditional to protective ventilation
Traditional ventilation will be set with 9 ml/kg with predicted body weight of tidal volumes and no PEEP and switched to protective ventilation after intracranial pressure measurement.
Protective to traditional ventilation
Protective ventilation will be set with 7 ml/kg tidal volume, 5 cm H2O PEEP, and 0.4 inspired O2 fraction (FiO2). Arterial CO2 partial pressure will be maintained between 30 and 35 mmHg. After intracranial pressure measurement ventilation will be switched to traditional.
Protective to traditional ventilation
Protective ventilation will be set with 7 ml/kg tidal volume, 5 cm H2O PEEP, and 0.4 inspired O2 fraction (FiO2), and switched to traditional ventilation after intracranial pressure measurement.
Interventions
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Traditional to protective ventilation
Traditional ventilation will be set with 9 ml/kg with predicted body weight of tidal volumes and no PEEP and switched to protective ventilation after intracranial pressure measurement.
Protective to traditional ventilation
Protective ventilation will be set with 7 ml/kg tidal volume, 5 cm H2O PEEP, and 0.4 inspired O2 fraction (FiO2), and switched to traditional ventilation after intracranial pressure measurement.
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Median line shift at preoperative CT scan ≥ 5mm
* Cortical brain effacement at preoperative CT scan
Exclusion Criteria
* BMI \> 30
* Pregnancy.
* Refusal to sign the informed consent.
* Emergency surgery.
* Respiratory co-morbidities (clinical evidence or history of COPD, asthma, interstitial pneumopathies, previous thoracic surgery).
18 Years
80 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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IRCCS San Raffaele
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Marco Gemma
MD Anaesthesist
Locations
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S. Raffaele Hospital
Milan, MI, Italy
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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22/INT/2015
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id