Anesthesia for Deep Brain Stimulation

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2013-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease has unique surgical stages and anesthesia needs. In the first stage the electrodes are inserted in the targeted brain areas and in the second stage the pulse generator is implanted. The technique for establishing sedation and analgesia for functional neurosurgery may differ among institutions. In this study it was aimed to investigate our anesthesia methods, intra-operative adverse events in the first stage of deep brain stimulation and the post operative pain therapy of the patients.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital
• Treatments: Dexmedetomidine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients undergoing DBS for the treatment of PD

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients required general anesthesia,

• suffered from dementia,

• obstructive sleep apnea,

• gastro esophageal reflux and with a mallampati score > 2,

• musculoskeletal problems causing difficulty with long term surgical positioning were excluded.