Active clinical trials for "Supratentorial Neoplasms"

Total intravenous anaesthesia using propofol and remifentanil are routinely used drugs for this purpose. The hemodynamic stability and at the same time early emergency are the main goals following neurosurgery. However there is no standard for discontinuation time for manually controlled systems today. The investigators aimed to study the effect of remifentanil infusion alone for early emergence and hemodynamic stability during the closure period in patients undergoing supratentorial craniotomy.

The primary aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the length of ICU stay and a newly developed FIVE score in neuro-intensive care patients. The secondary objectives are to evaluate the impact of the FIVE score on hospital length of stay, Modified Rankin Scale, and mortality, as well as to determine the correlation between the GCS, FOUR, and FIVE scores

Recent studies have shown that deep anesthesia is associated with poor outcome. There is still lack of randomized controlled trials with large sample size on the effect of depth of anesthesia on the postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing brain tumor resection. The investigators are performing a randomized and parallel group trial. The aim of the study is to determine whether there is a causal relationship between the depth of anesthesia and postoperative clinical outcome in patients undergoing supratentorial tumor surgery.

To evaluate the efficacy of replacement of ETT with LMA and administration of Magnesium sulphate at the end of the surgery in attenuating systemic stress response during emergence of patients undergoing supratentorial tumours

Although mannitol is used for brain relaxation during neurosurgery and in the treatment of raised intracranial pressure; there is not a consensus on its safe, effective dose and the duration of its administration. This study aimed to compare the effects of the mannitol in different use times, on the brain relaxation, electrolyte, lactate levels of the blood, peroperative fluid balance and the volume of the urine in supratentorial mass resection surgeries.

Hyperosmotic agents are used to decrease intracranial pressure. The aim of the study is to compare the effects of continuous 3% hypertonic saline (HS), bolus HS and 20% mannitol on intraoperative brain relaxation in patients with raised intracranial pressure during surgery for supratentorial tumors.

An optimal analgesic therapy is very important for postoperative recovery. In recent years, several studies showed that the prevalence of the moderate to severe pain after craniotomy ranged from 69 to 87% of patients. In a previous study, the investigators showed that the use of morphine based patient controlled analgesia prevented moderate to severe postoperative pain in patients undergoing supratentorial craniotomy. Morphine related side effects such as sedation, miosis, respiratory depression, nausea and vomiting produce a general reluctance for their use in neurosurgery. Therefore, all patients were closely observed to detect opioid related side effects in the intensive care unit for 24 hours following surgery in the previous study. The Integrated Pulmonary Index (IPI) is a new tool that calculates respiratory and hemodynamic parameters noninvasively. In the present study the investigators will use different doses of morphine based PCA and the IPI system to determine more effective and safer morphine dose for postoperative analgesia following supratentorial craniotomy.

Fluid management during neurosurgery presents a special clinical agenda. Volume overload can have detrimental effects on intracranial pressure by increasing either cerebral blood volume or hydrostatically driven cerebral edema formation. On the other hand, an overt restrictive fluid strategy may risk hemodynamic instability. Recently, dynamic fluid responsiveness parameters such as stroke volume variation (SVV) have been shown as a more precise parameters for fluid management including in neurosurgical patients. The threshold of SVV is reported about 10-15%. In this study, the investigators aim to using two SVV threshold to conduct intraoperative fluid therapy for craniotomy. Randomization will be generated by computer sampling. One of the two groups of patients will be managed with fluid bolus to keep intraoperative SVV <10% presenting the "normovolemia" group. The other group of patients will be kept intraoperative SVV <18% which is slightly above previously reported SVV threshold upper limit. The second group thus presents the "restrictive" group. Clinical outcomes, laboratory analysis including S100-B for neuronal damage and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) for acute kidney injury, will be compared.

An excellent recovery profile is critical for neurosurgical anesthesia. Rapid awakening, smooth blood pressure and heart rate (HR), a higher degree of coordination, painless or mild pain, as well as better tolerance to endotracheal intubation can avoid can increased intracranial pressure, elevated blood pressure and rapid HR caused by emergency choking, suffocation and agitation, and can reduce postoperative cerebral edema and the risk of bleeding. In addition, it is easy for surgeons to timely evaluate postoperative patients' neurologic function based on the excellent recovery from anesthesia. Up to now, there are many methods and drugs to improve the quality of recovery period, but each of them has some flaws. Dexmedetomidine, an emerging anesthetic adjuvant, exhibits a stable hemodynamic recovery period, and cannot affect evaluation of neurological function with both the sedative and analgesic effects. We propose the following hypotheses: (1) A small dose of dexmedetomidine can be intravenously injected into patients subjected to craniotomy under general anesthesia, in order to improve the recovery profiles and reduce the incidence of emergence agitation. (2) Dexmedetomidine can reduce postoperative pain.

This study was designed to quantify the incidence of hyponatremia in patients of supratentorial/supra-sellar lesions and observe their effect on neurological morbidity and mortality.