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CTRI Number  CTRI/2023/02/050005 [Registered on: 23/02/2023] Trial Registered Prospectively
Last Modified On: 14/11/2023
Post Graduate Thesis  No 
Type of Trial  Interventional 
Type of Study   Drug
Medical Device
Surgical/Anesthesia 
Study Design  Other 
Public Title of Study   Comparing different methods of monitoring pain, heart rate and blood pressure with opioid and non opioid medicines in patients undergoing the brain surgeries. 
Scientific Title of Study   Comparison of changes in Analgesia Nociceptive Index, Surgical Pleth Index, and Hemodynamic parameters to noxious stimuli in patients receiving opioid and opioid free analgesia undergoing supratentorial craniotomies – An open label comparative study. 
Trial Acronym   
Secondary IDs if Any  
Secondary ID  Identifier 
NIL  NIL 
 
Details of Principal Investigator or overall Trial Coordinator (multi-center study)  
Name  RAKESH T L 
Designation  SENIOR RESIDENT 
Affiliation  National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru 
Address  FACULTY BUILDING, 3RD FLOOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES, BENGALURU
Hosur Road, Near Bangalore Milk Dairy, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 5600029
Bangalore
KARNATAKA
560029
India 
Phone  9535751263  
Fax    
Email  rakeshtambi92@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Scientific Query
 
Name  SONIA BANSAL 
Designation  ADDITIONAL PROFESSOR 
Affiliation  National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru 
Address  FACULTY BUILDING, 4th FLOOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES, BENGALURU
Hosur Road, Near Bangalore Milk Dairy, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 5600029 ph no - 080-26995000
Bangalore
KARNATAKA
560029
India 
Phone    
Fax    
Email  itz.sonia77@gmail.com  
 
Details of Contact Person
Public Query
 
Name  SONIA BANSAL 
Designation  ADDITIONAL PROFESSOR 
Affiliation  National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru 
Address  FACULTY BUILDING, 4th FLOOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES, BENGALURU
Hosur Road, Near Bangalore Milk Dairy, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 5600029 ph no - 080-26995000
Bangalore
KARNATAKA
560029
India 
Phone    
Fax    
Email  itz.sonia77@gmail.com  
 
Source of Monetary or Material Support  
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES Hosur Road, Near Bangalore Milk Dairy, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029 
 
Primary Sponsor  
Name  NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES 
Address  Hosur Road, Near Bangalore Milk Dairy, Bengaluru, Karnataka  
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 
RAKESH T L  NATIONAL INSTITUTE MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES  Hosur Road, near Bangalore Milk Dairy, Bengaluru
Bangalore
KARNATAKA 
9535751263

rakeshtambi92@gmail.com 
 
Details of Ethics Committee  
No of Ethics Committees= 1  
Name of Committee  Approval Status 
NIMHANS ETHICS COMMITTEE  Approved 
 
Regulatory Clearance Status from DCGI  
Status 
Not Applicable 
 
Health Condition / Problems Studied  
Health Type  Condition 
Patients  (1) ICD-10 Condition: D330||Benign neoplasm of brain, supratentorial,  
 
Intervention / Comparator Agent  
Type  Name  Details 
Intervention  Inj Dexemedetomidine  -Group D – will receive inj dexmedetomidine at 1 mcg/kg iv over 10 min after which the dose will be reduced to 0.5 mcg/kg/hr. 
Comparator Agent  Inj Fentanyl  -Group F – will receive inj fentanyl at 2 mcg/kg iv over 10 min after which the dose will be reduced to 1 mcg/kg/hr. 
 
Inclusion Criteria  
Age From  18.00 Year(s)
Age To  65.00 Year(s)
Gender  Both 
Details  -Patients aged between 18 and 65years of ASA I and II
-Patients undergoing elective supratentorial craniotomy 
 
ExclusionCriteria 
Details  -Patients in whom dexmedetomidine is contraindicated (second and third degree heart block),
-Patients in whom ANI will be unreliable (patients with pacemakers, patients on drugs affecting
sinus node, patients having arrhythmias).
-Patients with liver and renal diseases.
-Patients on gabapentinoids, tricyclic antidepressants and other analgesics
-Patients posted for aneurysmal clipping
-Patients with decreased sensorium 
 
Method of Generating Random Sequence   Not Applicable 
Method of Concealment   Not Applicable 
Blinding/Masking   Open Label 
Primary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
To compare the magnitude of change and response time in ANI, SPI and hemodynamic parameters (HR and MAP) to various noxious stimuli between patients receiving OFA with dexmedetomidine and those receiving opioid analgesia with fentanyl for
supratentorial craniotomies.
(Response time is the time taken for the parameter to change maximally due to noxious
stimuli from the pre-stimuli value, i.e. lowest for the ANI and highest for SPI, HR and
BP)
(Magnitude of change is the difference between highest/lowest value after stimulation as compared to baseline i.e. pre-stimuli value) 
Before starting analgesic drug infusion and after 5 min and 10 min of starting infusion. At Intubation, skull pin insertion, skin incision, first burr hole placement, and durotomy. 
 
Secondary Outcome  
Outcome  TimePoints 
-To compare the magnitude of change and response timein ANI, SPI, hemodynamics with in the group
-To determine and correlation between ANI and SPI in patients receiving opioid and OFA  
Before starting analgesic drug infusion and after 5 min and 10 min of starting infusion. At Intubation, skull pin insertion, skin incision, first burr hole placement, and durotomy. 
 
Target Sample Size   Total Sample Size="58"
Sample Size from India="58" 
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (Total)= "58"
Final Enrollment numbers achieved (India)="58" 
Phase of Trial   N/A 
Date of First Enrollment (India)   24/02/2023 
Date of Study Completion (India) Date Missing 
Date of First Enrollment (Global)  Date Missing 
Date of Study Completion (Global) 31/05/2023 
Estimated Duration of Trial   Years="0"
Months="10"
Days="0" 
Recruitment Status of Trial (Global)
Modification(s)  
Not Yet Recruiting 
Recruitment Status of Trial (India)  Completed 
Publication Details    
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement

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

Response - NO
Brief Summary  
We hypothesize that while the performance of SPI(Surgical Pleth Index) may be similar with opioid and OFA (Opioid Free Analgesia), ANI(Analgesia Nociceptive Index) changes with noxious stimuli during surgery may be different (smaller magnitude of change with stimuli) due to the effect of dexmedetomidine on Heart Rate Variation.
Dexmedetomidine has been shown to cause an increase in the HF (high frequency) component of power in ANI spectra. (Increase in HF component power indicates predominant parasympathetic surge).
SPI has been effectively used as a guide to analgesia in patients receiving opioid and non opioid analgesia undergoing supratentorial craniotomies.10 Studies have established that ANI can detect painful stimuli in patients undergoing general surgeries under anaesthesia with opioid free analgesia.
To the best our knowledge there are no studies assessing the performance of ANI in detecting nociception in patients receiving OFA in neurosurgical population.
Hence, we intend to compare the changes in ANI, SPI and the hemodynamic parameters to nociception in patients receiving opioid and non opioid analgesia undergoing supratentorial craniotomies.
 
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