Retrospective Evaluation of POCD Data of Studies From KAI, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

NCT ID: NCT02832193

Last Updated: 2025-11-26

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

5000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-03-31

Study Completion Date

2027-12-31

Brief Summary

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Data on prevention of perioperative neurocognitive disorders (pNCDs) are limited. The purpose of this monocentric parallel - grouped observational registry is to collect study data from studies with pNCDs as primary or secondary endpoint to estimate prevalence and incidence of pNCDs.

Detailed Description

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Perioperative cognitive trajectories (Perioperative neurocognitive disorders \[pNCDs\]) are described with formal cognitive testing (neurocognitive test battery). Definitions are based on current nomenclature recommendations (Evered et al.) according to DSM-V criteria including a multi-component cognitive test battery comparing baseline and postoperative follow-up testing of patients with cognitive test performance of non-surgical control groups.Cognitive concern and functional ability are described with items from questionnaires, e.g. IQCODE, MMQ, GDS, ADL/IADL and others specific to the respective study design.

Repeated cognitive testing with a battery of computerized neuropsychological tests (Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery \[CANTAB®\]) and non computerized (paper based)tests (e.g. trailmaking test, Grooved pegboard test, Stroop color word interference test, animal naming test, etc.) are performed at preoperative baseline, after 5-7 days and at three months follow up, 1 year, 2 years and 5 years follow-up according to the study design of the registered studies.

Different calculation methods will be applied to the cognitive test data, primarily the dichotomousapproach established by Rasmussen et al. in the International Study on postoperative cognitive deficits (ISPOCD). This calculation method defines POCD as a reliable change in pre- and postoperative cognitive performance (difference scores) of each individual in the surgical patients cohort as compared to the changes in a non-surgical control group (reliable change index in either a composite score including cognitive test parameters from all tests in the cognitive test battery or in at least two of the chosen cognitive test parameters). Additional calculation methods like "g-factor", "GCP" and arbitrary definitions e.g. "20.20- rule" will be used for detailed methodologic evaluation.

In two subprojects we plan to describe domain-specific changes in formal cognitive testing over the registered surgical cohorts.

Subproject 1-Analyses will be performed in joint evaluation with Monument Therapeutics (Spin off Cambridge Cognition). The analyses aim to :

1. Describe cognitive change based on raw cognitive data from the applied cognitive test battery (computerized tests with CANTAB eclipse, CANTAB research suite, CANTAB connect and non-computerized tests)
2. Identify predisposing factors (e.g. patient characteristics, biomarkers, medications) predictive of cognitive decline following surgery
3. Identify the cognitive domains most sensitive to neuropsychological change following surgery

Subproject 2-Analyses will be performed in joint evaluation with Cambridge Cognition. The analyses aim to :

Facilitate the use of data collected from non-surgical controls as normative material for future studies in the research area.

Conditions

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Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Study group

POCD data of study patients of the following studies:

Phydelio - Eudract.-No.: 2008-007237-47 - 08/0618 ZS EK11 Neuprodex - Eudract-No.: 2013 -000823-15 - 13/0491 ZSEK11 BioCog - EA2/092/14 Cognitive Outcome after two stage liver operation - EA1/296/12 ReCosa - EA1/056/13 Hypnoc - EA1/273/11 Sudoco - EA1/242/08 Peratecs - EA1/241/08 Hipster - Eudract.-No.: 2009-016043-19 100/10 ZS EK15 Pain-Long-EA2/041/17 PCI - EA2/024/18 PODSPA - EA4/138/18, PRÄP-GO -EA1/225/19, ANA-PRÄP-Go (EA1/266/20) Further studies from the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medince (CCM/CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

No interventions assigned to this group

Control group I

POCD data of prospective control subjects/patients (ASA I+II+III) and POCD data of control subjects/patients of the following studies:

Neuprodex - Eudract-No.: 2013 -000823-15 - 13/0491 ZSEK11 Phydeliostudie - Eudract.-No.: 2008-007237-47 - 08/0618 ZS EK11 BioCog - EA2/092/14 Cognitive Outcome after two stage liver operation - EA1/296/12 Hypnoc - EA1/273/11 Sudoco - EA1/242/08 Peratecs - EA1/241/08 Hipster - Eudract.-No.: 2009-016043-19 100/10 ZS EK15 BioCog-Studie - EA2/092/14 REACT-Studie - EA2/091/15 PAINLONG-Studie - EA2/041/17 PCI - EA2/024/18 PODSPA - EA4/138/18, PRÄP-GO -EA1/225/19, ANA-PRÄP-Go (EA1/266/20) Further studies from the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medince (CCM/CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age 18 -100 years
* Male or female patients undergoing elective surgery expected to last at least 60 min, screened at the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
* Written informed consent to participate after having been properly instructed


* Age 18 - 100 years
* Male or female patients (ASA Status I, II+III)
* No planned surgery during the next 3 months
* No surgery during the past 6 months before study inclusion
* Written informed consent to participate after having been properly instructed

Exclusion Criteria

* Lacking willingness to take part in the study, or to have relevant study data collected, saved and analyzed for the purpose of the study
* Accommodation in an institution due to an official or judicial order
* Insufficient knowledge of German language
* Members of the hospital staff
* Homelessness or other conditions that disable reachability for postoperative assessment by post or telephone
* Illiteracy
* Patients who had a history of neurologic deficits (e.g. stroke, history of seizures, etc.)
* Hearing impairment that severely affects the neuropsychological testing.
* Visual impairment that severely affects the neuropsychological testing.
* Participation in other prospective clinical interventional trials

Control Group


* Insufficient knowledge of German language Lacking willingness to take part in the study, or to have relevant study data collected, saved and analyzed for the purpose of the study
* Neuropsychiatric conditions that severely affect the neuropsychological testing
* Hearing impairment that severely affects the neuropsychological testing
* Visual impairment that severely affects the neuropsychological testing
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

100 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Charite University, Berlin, Germany

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Claudia Spies

Head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine (CCM, CVK)

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Claudia Spies, MD, Prof.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Charite University, Berlin, Germany

Locations

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Irmgard Landgraf

Berlin, , Germany

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Department of Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine Berlin (CCM, CVK), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Berlin, , Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Germany

Central Contacts

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Claudia Spies, MD, Prof.

Role: CONTACT

+49 30 450 5510 01

Facility Contacts

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Irmgard Landgraf, MD

Role: primary

+49 30 450 85726877

Claudia Spies, MD, Prof.

Role: primary

+49 30 450 55 10 01

References

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Rasmussen LS, Larsen K, Houx P, Skovgaard LT, Hanning CD, Moller JT; ISPOCD group. The International Study of Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction. The assessment of postoperative cognitive function. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2001 Mar;45(3):275-89. doi: 10.1034/j.1399-6576.2001.045003275.x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11207462 (View on PubMed)

Evered L, Silbert B, Knopman DS, Scott DA, DeKosky ST, Rasmussen LS, Oh ES, Crosby G, Berger M, Eckenhoff RG; Nomenclature Consensus Working Group. Recommendations for the nomenclature of cognitive change associated with anaesthesia and surgery-2018. Br J Anaesth. 2018 Nov;121(5):1005-1012. doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2017.11.087. Epub 2018 Jun 15.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 30336844 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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POCD-Registry

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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