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| Name | Class |
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| Centre Hospitalier du Centre du Valais | OTHER |
| Ospedale Regionale di Lugano | OTHER |
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Magnesium and volatiles anesthetics both have an effect on the neuromuscular transmission. The primary objective of the study is to quantify the effect of a perfusion of intravenous magnesium on neuromuscular transmission measured by electromyography device TetraGraph device in patients undergoing general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics (desflurane, sevoflurane and isoflurane) as compared to intravenous anesthesia with propofol.
Magnesium sulfate is regularly used during anesthesia, for instance for the reduction of postoperative pain. It reduces the liberation of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction. At high plasma concentrations it can induce muscle weakness, flaccid paralysis and in cases of intoxication lead to respiratory arrest. It enhances the effect of muscle relaxants.
Volatiles anesthetics influence neuromuscular transmission. They inhibit postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by causing open channel block, receptor desensitization and reducing exocytosis from pre-synaptic vesicles at the neuromuscular junction. The ranking order of these effects of volatile anesthetics on neuromuscular transmission is: desflurane > sevoflurane > isoflurane, depending on their blood-gas and tissue-gas solubility index.
Magnesium given intravenously during volatile anesthesia induces effects on neuromuscular transmission similar to that of neuromuscular blocking agents. This effect has never been investigated and quantified systematically and prospectively.
Propofol, an intravenous anesthetic, has very little effects on neuromuscular transmission. Therefore magnesium given intravenously during total intravenous anesthesia with propofol has no or only very little effect on neuromuscular transmission.
The primary objective of the study is to quantify the effect of a perfusion of intravenous magnesium on neuromuscular transmission measured by accelerometry with theTetraGraph device in patients undergoing general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics (desflurane, sevoflurane and isoflurane) as compared to intravenous anesthesia with propofol. The investigators expect a following rank order of the effect: desflurane > sevoflurane > isoflurane > propofol.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Propofol | Active Comparator | In all patients 3 minutes before induction sufentanil 0.2 mcg/kg or fentanyl 2 mcg/kg will be given. In patients in the propofol group, anesthesia will be induced and maintained with a total intravenous anesthesia pump following the model of Schnider et al, at a targeted effect-site concentration of 4 +/- 1 mcg/ml. In patients in all groups, after induction of anesthesia and loss of consciousness, a laryngeal mask airway will be inserted. The TetraGraph device will be calibrated. Once general anesthesia is established, a blood sample will be taken to measure serum magnesium and calcium levels. This blood sample will be analysed in the certified laboratory of each participating hospital. |
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| Isoflurane | Experimental | In all patients 3 minutes before induction sufentanil 0.2 mcg/kg or fentanyl 2 mcg/kg will be given. After induction of anesthesia and loss of consciousness, a laryngeal mask airway will be inserted. The TetraGraph device will be calibrated. Once general anesthesia is established, a blood sample will be taken to measure serum magnesium and calcium levels. This blood sample will be analysed in the certified laboratory of each participating hospital. The anesthesia will be maintained with the agent specified by randomization: isoflurane in this group. |
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| Desflurane | Experimental | In all patients 3 minutes before induction sufentanil 0.2 mcg/kg or fentanyl 2 mcg/kg will be given. After induction of anesthesia and loss of consciousness, a laryngeal mask airway will be inserted. The TetraGraph device will be calibrated. Once general anesthesia is established, a blood sample will be taken to measure serum magnesium and calcium levels. This blood sample will be analysed in the certified laboratory of each participating hospital. The anesthesia will be maintained with the agent specified by randomization: desflurane in this group. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Magnesium Sulfate | Drug | The experimental intervention is the injection of magnesium sulfate. This will be done as soon as TetraGraph calibration is done and neuromuscular measurements are stable. Each patient will receive 60 mg/kg of magnesium sulfate as an intravenous perfusion over 5 minutes. Vital signs before, during and after the perfusion will be taken and documented. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in TOF ratio after perfusion of magnesium | This primary outcome will be assessed with neuromuscular monitoring, carried out according to international guidelines. The ulnar nerve will be stimulated by train-of-four (TOF) using a TofScan monitor. | After starting TOF AUTO mode. patients will receive an intravenous perfusion of magnesium 60mg/kg mg kg-1 over 5 minutes. Neuromuscular monitoring will be continued until the end of surgery, but at least until a TOF ratio of 0.9 is reached. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Lowest T1 twitch height and TOF ratio | The secondary outcomes are the lowest T1 twitch height and TOF ratio measured after starting the magnesium perfusion and the time required for the return of single twitch height (T1) and TOF ratio to its control value according to the TofScan measurements. | After the perfusion of magnesium and until the T1 twitch height and the TOF ratio reach the initial values again. |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Christoph Czarnetzki, MD, MBA | Contact | +41 091 8116664 | christoph.czarnetzki@hcuge.ch | |
| Sina Grape, MD, MBA | Contact | 0041276038759 | sina.grape@hopitalvs.ch |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Valais Hospital | Recruiting | Sion | 1951 | Switzerland |
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| ID | Term |
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| D008278 | Magnesium Sulfate |
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| D017616 | Magnesium Compounds |
| D007287 | Inorganic Chemicals |
| D013431 | Sulfates |
| D013464 | Sulfuric Acids |
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This study is a three centers prospective randomized, electrophysiological, single blinded study that will include 96 patients allocated to one of four arms: one arm with propofol anesthesia and three arms with volatile anesthetics (one arm with isoflurane, one with sevoflurane and one with desflurane). Each arm will have 24 patients.
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For practical reasons it is impossible to blind the investigator who conducts the anesthesia. However, the parameters of neuromuscular block are standardized, and study outcomes will be evaluated using the data stored and displayed in theTetraGraph Viewer software. All neuromuscular measurements of the study outcomes are reproducible and objective.
In contrast, the investigator evaluating the patient in the postanesthetic care unit and for the 24 h postoperative visit will be blinded to the study group allocation.
The patient will also be blinded to the study group allocation.
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| Sevoflurane | Experimental | In all patients 3 minutes before induction sufentanil 0.2 mcg/kg or fentanyl 2 mcg/kg will be given. After induction of anesthesia and loss of consciousness, a laryngeal mask airway will be inserted. The TetraGraph device will be calibrated. Once general anesthesia is established, a blood sample will be taken to measure serum magnesium and calcium levels. This blood sample will be analysed in the certified laboratory of each participating hospital. The anesthesia will be maintained with the agent specified by randomization: sevoflurane in this group. |
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| D013456 |
| Sulfur Acids |
| D013457 | Sulfur Compounds |