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CTRI Number  CTRI/2015/03/005616 [Registered on: 10/03/2015] Trial Registered Retrospectively
Last Modified On: 05/03/2015
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Drug
Surgical/Anesthesia 
Study Design  Randomized, Parallel Group, Placebo Controlled Trial 
Public Title of Study   COMPARISON OF TWO DRUGS FOR PREVENTION OF NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN PATEINTS UNDERGOING SURGERY FOR BRAIN TUMOURS 
Scientific Title of Study   COMPARISON OF PALANOSETRON AND ONDANSETRON ON ONSET OF POSTCRANIOTOMY NAUSEA AND VOMITING (POO-PCNV) TRIAL 
Trial Acronym  POO-PCNV 
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  DR HEMANT BHAGAT 
Designation  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 
Affiliation  PGIMER, CHANDIGARH 
Address  DEPARTMENT OF ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE PGIMER CHANDIGARH

Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH
160012
India 
Phone  9216387387  
Fax    
Email  hembhagat@rediffmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  DR HEMANT BHAGAT 
Designation  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 
Affiliation  PGIMER, CHANDIGARH 
Address  DEPARTMENT OF ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE PGIMER CHANDIGARH

Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH
160012
India 
Phone  9216387387  
Fax    
Email  hembhagat@rediffmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  DR HEMANT BHAGAT 
Designation  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 
Affiliation  PGIMER, CHANDIGARH 
Address  DEPARTMENT OF ANAESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE PGIMER CHANDIGARH

Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH
160012
India 
Phone  9216387387  
Fax    
Email  hembhagat@rediffmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
PGIMER, chandigarh 
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  PGIMER CHANDIGARH 
Address  PGIMER, SEC 12 CHANDIGARH 
Type of Sponsor  Research institution and hospital 
 
Details of Secondary Sponsor  
Name  Address 
NIL  NIL 
 
Countries of Recruitment     India  
Sites of Study  
No of Sites = 1  
Name of Principal Investigator  Name of Site  Site Address  Phone/Fax/Email 
DR HEMANT BHAGAT  PGIMER   DEPARTMENT OF ANAESTHTESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE, 5 TH FLOOR, NEHRU HOSPITAL, PGIMER,SEC 12, CHANDIGARH
Chandigarh
CHANDIGARH 
9216387387

hembhagat@rediffmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
INSTITUTE ETHICS COMMITEE(INTRAMURAL) POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, CHANDIGARH  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  post operative nausea and vomiting in the neurosurgical patients,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Intervention  Ondansetron  Most commonly used HT3 receptor antagonist, 4 mg intravenous will be given at the time of the dural closure 
Comparator Agent  Palanosetron  New 5-HT3 Receptor antgonist, longer duration of action, safe profile, 0.075 mg intravenous will be given at the time of the dural closure 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  65.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  • Patients scheduled for elective intracranial surgery
• American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) Grade I and II patients
• Patients with Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of 15

 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  • Patients with history of motion sickness
• Pregnant patients
• Breast feeding
• Allergy to palanosetron
• Morbid obesity
• Cardiac dysrhythmias
• Psychiatric illness
• Chronic smokers
• Those who have undergone ventriculo-peritoneal shunt

 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Computer generated randomization 
Method of Concealment   An Open list of random numbers 
Blinding/Masking   Participant and Investigator Blinded 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Comparison of time duration for onset of PONV in neurosurgical patients following craniotomy with use of palanosetron when compared to ondansetron .

 
0 hr, 1 hr,6 hr,12 hr,24 hr,36 hr,48 hr,72 hrs .

 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
Comparison of palanosetron with ondansetron for - a) PONV scoring , b) incidence and severity of nausea, c) incidence of vomiting, d) length of postoperative hospital stay, e) side effects and f) patient satisfaction.  0 hr, 1 hr,6 hr, 12 hrs, 24 hrs, 36 hrs, 48 hrs,72 hrs 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="76"
Sample Size from India="76" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials" 
Phase of Trial   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   09/06/2014 
Date of Study Completion (India) Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) Applicable only for Completed/Terminated trials 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="3"
Months="3"
Days="30" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)   Not Applicable 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Open to Recruitment 
Publication Details    
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

Will individual participant data (IPD) be shared publicly (including data dictionaries)?  

Brief Summary   PONV( Post operative nausea and vomiting) is a frequent and distressing symptom after any type of neurosurgial procedure with a reported incidence of 44-70% in diffrent studies.In addition to cuasing patient discomfort  protracted PONV causes dehdration, acid-base disturbance, electrolyte imbalance which may effect the cerebral physiology and influence the outcome of the patient. Selective serotonin(5HT-3) antagonists are considered first choice for PONV owing to their safe profile and lack of serious side effects. Palanosetron have been found to be superioir to other serotonin anatgonists in phase 3 clinical trials in reducing early, immediate and delayed chemotherapy induced vomiting. No study has yet been done to evaluate the efficacy of palanosetron in the neurosurgical pouplation. Thus we planned  a prospetive randomized, double blind , controlled clinical trial to compare the efficacy of ondansetron and palanosetron in reducing PONV in patients undergoing neurosurgery. We will also assess corerelation of PONV with other factors sich as midline shift, mass effect, site and pathologic diagnosis of the tumour.
 
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