Ketamine Effect on Isoflurane Anesthesia

Summary

Ketamine effect on isoflurane anesthesia This study is designed to study the effect of ketamine on isoflurane anesthesia. As both drugs are hypnotic and are used to cause sleep during surgery and other painful procedures, it was long believed that the actions of two drugs add to each other. For example if a man received both drugs, this man will become awake from anesthesia much later than if this man was given either of them alone. However recent studies showed that this is not the case and ketamine can cause fast recovery from hypnotic effects of isoflurane. This was confirmed in animals. The aim of current study is to investigate if this effect applies for humans, using a state of art brain monitoring device in wide use nowadays called BIS or bispectral index. This device can also shed some light on how ketamine can cause, if any, fast recovery from isoflurane anesthesia. Simply, by studying electrical wave coming from brain to head skin.

Timeline

Start

2017-09-30

Primary completion

2017-11-15

Completion

2017-11-25

Publications

• Background Li D, Hambrecht-Wiedbusch VS, Mashour GA. Accelerated Recovery of Consciousness after General Anesthesia Is Associated with Increased Functional Brain Connectivity in the High-Gamma Bandwidth. Front Syst Neurosci. 2017 Mar 24;11:16. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2017.00016. eCollection 2017.
• Background Mashour GA. Cognitive unbinding: a neuroscientific paradigm of general anesthesia and related states of unconsciousness. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2013 Dec;37(10 Pt 2):2751-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.09.009. Epub 2013 Sep 26.
• Background Philip BK, Kallar SK, Bogetz MS, Scheller MS, Wetchler BV. A multicenter comparison of maintenance and recovery with sevoflurane or isoflurane for adult ambulatory anesthesia. The Sevoflurane Multicenter Ambulatory Group. Anesth Analg. 1996 Aug;83(2):314-9. doi: 10.1097/00000539-199608000-00019.
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Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.