Lipid Emulsion for Reversal of Spinal Anesthesia in Ambulatory Surgery

NCT ID: NCT06988982

Last Updated: 2025-05-25

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

42 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-06-01

Study Completion Date

2026-01-01

Brief Summary

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Ambulatory surgery places high demands on anesthetic technique. rapid onset and offset of anesthesia, rapid recovery of protective reflexes, mobility and micturition, are required. Since the inception of ambulatory surgery, the favored anesthetic technique has been general anesthesia with short-acting drugs. Concerns about the time to perform spinal anesthesia and the risks of prolonged motor block and urinary retention have limited its use.

Alpha-blockers, lavage fluids for epidural space, insulin, and intravenous lipid emulsions, are still being discussed to shorten and reverse adverse effect of different LAs used for spinal anaesthesia, hence we will evaluate the effectiveness of intravenous lipid emulsion for reversing the neural blockade of spinal anaesthesia in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery.

Detailed Description

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An increasing number of ambulatory surgical patients is challenging the currently used anaesthesia methods, reliable surgical anaesthesia should be quick, with rapid recovery and minimal side effects. Spinal anaesthesia (SA) is an easy and reliable technique that has grown in popularity for inpatient surgery, but its use in ambulatory surgery has been limited due to several factors including the prolonged neurological block with long-acting local anaesthetics (LA), delayed ambulation, risk of urinary retention and pain after block regression therefore delaying patient discharge. On the other hand, general anaesthesia with short-acting drugs grants rapid recovery enabling the early discharge. While recovery after spinal anaesthesia has been recently improved by lowering the dose of the commonly used long-acting local anaesthetics such as bupivacaine, discharge times are still prolonged compared to general anaesthesia.

Intravenous lipid emulsions (ILEs) were originally developed as a part of parenteral nutrition for critically ill patients, dating back to the 1960s. Over the last ten years, there has been rising interest in ILEs in clinical toxicology beyond its established role in the treatment of acute intoxication with local anaesthetics (LAST). The use of ILEs for the treatment of lipophilic drug toxicity is increasing nowadays with several studies reported alleviation of intractable cardiovascular collapse induced by toxic doses of these non-local anaesthetic drugs including calcium channel blockers (verapamil), tricyclic antidepressants (amitriptyline) and beta-blockers. In addition, Complications following intrathecal administration of bupivacaine have been reported to be successfully managed with intravenous administration of lipid emulsion.

While the precise mechanism by which ILEs exerts its effect remains unknown, the leading theory is that the ILEs intravascular action entails creating a concentration gradient which favours LA redistribution to the extracellular space. Lipid vesicles then encapsulate LA creating lipid sinks and the formation of this "trap" removes the toxins from the various tissues and organs, reducing their bioavailability and the sequestration mechanism where LA is rapidly redistributed by "lipid shuttles" to sites of metabolism (liver), storage (adipose tissue) or elimination (kidney). Alternative theories include reduced binding of local anaesthetics to sodium transport channels, direct promotion of sodium channel function recovery, and replenishing ATP stores from increased uptake of fatty acids by mitochondria.

Considering the few published reports supporting the effectiveness of ILEs in reversing the primary nervous system effects of regional anaesthesia such as total or high spinal anaesthesia, prolonged neural blockade, and reverse phrenic nerve palsy secondary to a brachial plexus block with the well-known favourable safety profile of ILEs. We hypothesized that ILEs could be an attractive effective option to reverse the sensory and motor actions of intrathecal bupivacaine thus accelerating the neurological recovery after spinal anaesthesia which could avert the delayed hospital discharge and facilitate the use of SA for ambulatory surgeries.

Conditions

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Spinal Anaesthesia Spinal Anesthesia Evaluation Ambulatory Surgery

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Group ILE (Intravenous lipid emulsion group)

patients will receive 1.5 ml/kg bolus of intravenous lipid emulsion 20 % followed by 0.25 ml/kg/hour infusion over 30 minutes at the end of surgery

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Intravenous Lipid Emulsion 20%

Intervention Type DRUG

patients will receive 1.5 ml/kg bolus of intravenous lipid emulsion 20 % followed by 0.25 ml/kg/hr infusion over 30 minutes at the end of surgery

Group C (control group)

patients will received equal volume of normal saline at the end of surgery

Group Type PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Control (placebo) group

Intervention Type DRUG

patients will receive equal volume of normal saline at the end of surgery

Interventions

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Intravenous Lipid Emulsion 20%

patients will receive 1.5 ml/kg bolus of intravenous lipid emulsion 20 % followed by 0.25 ml/kg/hr infusion over 30 minutes at the end of surgery

Intervention Type DRUG

Control (placebo) group

patients will receive equal volume of normal saline at the end of surgery

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patient acceptance.
* Cooperative patient
* Age 21-70 years old.
* BMI ≤ 35 kg/m2
* ASA I - II.
* Elective ambulatory surgery under spinal anesthesia (general surgery, urology, gynecology, orthopedic surgery).

Exclusion Criteria

* History of allergy to the LA agents used in this study,
* Skin lesion at needle insertion site,
* Those with bleeding disorders, sepsis, liver disease and psychiatric disorders
* History of cognitive dysfunction or mental illness
Minimum Eligible Age

21 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Zagazig University

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sherif M. S. Mowafy

Associate professor of anesthesia, intensive care, and pain management

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sherif M. S. Mowafy, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Management Department. Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University,

Shereen E. Abd Ellatif, MD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain Management Department. Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University

Locations

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Zagazig University Hospitals

Zagazig, Al Sharqia, Egypt

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Egypt

Central Contacts

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Sherif M. S. Mowafy, MD

Role: CONTACT

+201003523374

Shereen E. Abd Ellatif, MD

Role: CONTACT

+201007948840

Facility Contacts

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Sherif M. S. Mowafy, MD

Role: primary

+201003523374

Shereen E. Abd Ellatif, MD

Role: backup

+201007948840

References

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Other Identifiers

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1270/13-5-2025

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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