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NCT05375669: CCCV

The Effect of Increasing Current or Pulse Duration on Patient Movement and Intraoperative Transcranial Electric Stimulation Motor Evoked Potential Amplitude

Completed NA Last updated 1 April 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing ISIS IOM System in Surgery in 31 participants. Completed in 1 November 2024.

Timeline
10 August 2022
Primary endpoint
1 November 2024
1 November 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsorInsel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
PhaseNA
StatusCompleted
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationna
Designsingle group
Maskingnone
Primary purposetreatment
Enrollment31
Start date10 August 2022
Primary completion1 November 2024
Estimated completion1 November 2024
Sites1 location across Switzerland

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Surgery. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Transcranial electric stimulation (TES) motor evoked potential (MEP) monitoring is standard during surgery risking motor system injury. The stimuli are typically 5-pulse trains with a 4 ms interstimulus interval (ISI). The pulse duration (D) is often set to 50 or 500 µs. Both are effective, but setting D to the chronaxie would be physiologically optimal and limited data suggest that mean MEP chronaxie may be near 200 µs. When necessary, one can obtain larger MEPs by increasing current (I) or D to increase stimulus charge (Q = I × D). However, this also increases patient movement that can interfere with surgery and reduce MEP acquisition frequency. The main research question is whether increasing current or pulse duration when applying intraoperative neuromonitoring produces less patient movement during surgery. As such, the IOM ISIS System will be employed for neuromonitoring and an accelerometer will be used to quantify patient movement. The constant-current TES stimulators will be used in this study with a high-precision oscilloscope. Total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA), surgery and TES MEP monitoring will proceed routinely without modification and normally involves acquiring many MEPs over several hours. The only departure from standard care will be the placement of two small accelerometers and a brief MEP sequence before skin incision to determine chronaxie and compare the effect of an equivalent increase of I or D on MEP amplitude and movement.

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