Status:

COMPLETED

Epidural Anesthesia and Long-term Outcomes in Elderly Patients After Surgery

Lead Sponsor:

Peking University First Hospital

Collaborating Sponsors:

Peking University People's Hospital

Peking University Third Hospital

Conditions:

Elderly Patients

Solid Organ Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

60-90 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Surgical resection is one of the most important treatments for solid organ cancer. Whereas cancer recurrence and/or metastasis are the major reasons of treatment failure. The outcomes after surgery ar...

Detailed Description

Surgical resection is the main treatment for potentially curable solid organ cancer. However, long-term survival after cancer surgery is far from satisfactory. Quite a number of patients develop tumor...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Elderly patients (age 60-90 years);
  • Scheduled to undergo noncardiac thoracic or abdominal surgery with an expected duration of 2 hours or longer. For those who undergo thoracoscopic or laparoscopic surgery, the expected length of incision must be 5 centimeters or more;
  • Agree to receive patient-controlled postoperative analgesia.

Exclusion

  • Refused to participate;
  • Previous history of schizophrenia, epilepsy or Parkinson disease, or unable to complete preoperative assessment due to severe dementia, language barrier or end-stage disease;
  • History of myocardial infarction or stroke within 3 months before surgery;
  • Presence of any contraindication to epidural anesthesia and analgesia, including abnormal vertebral anatomy, previous spinal trauma or surgery, severe chronic back pain, coagulation disorder (prothrombin time or activated partial prothrombin time longer than 1.5 times of the upper normal limit, or platelet count of less than 80 \* 10\^9/L), local infection near the site of puncture, and severe sepsis;
  • Severe heart dysfunction (New York Heart Association functional classification 3 or above), severe hepatic insufficiency (Child-Pugh grade C), or severe renal insufficiency (serum creatinine of 442 umol/L or above, with or without serum potassium of 6.5 mmol/L or above, or requirement of renal replacement therapy);
  • Any other conditions that were considered unsuitable for study participation.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2017

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 30 2019

Estimated Enrollment :

1802 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03335826

Start Date

August 1 2017

End Date

September 30 2019

Last Update

April 14 2020

Active Locations (5)

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Beijing University First Hospital

Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China, 100034

2

Beijing Shijitan Hospital

Beijing, China, 100038

3

Peking University People's Hospital

Beijing, China, 100044

4

Peking University Third Hospital

Beijing, China, 100191