PhenylephrineNCT03696732
Anxiety and Phenylephrine Dosage
An observational study of Phenylephrine, run by Rabin Medical Center at 1 site in Israel.
Trial summary
Spinal anesthesia is considered gold standard anesthetic technique of choice for cesarean delivery (1). However its use is frequently associated with maternal hypotension, which occurs in up to 71% of cases, without prophylactic treatment(2) Spinal hypotension can lead to unpleasant maternal side effects such as… Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 years and older, women onlyHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Phenylephrine
- What is being tested?
- Anxiety questionnaire and VAS questionnaire
- How many people
- 100 participants
- Where
- 1 siteIsrael
- Study dates
- 20 Oct 2018to 20 Oct 2019
- Phase
- Observational
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 years and older
- Women only
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Adult, Older adult
Study population: Two hundred healthy term parturients, over 18 years old, with healthy singleton pregnancy, undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia in Beilinson Hospital, following obtaining written informed consents forums with the ability to comply with the study requirements will be included in our study.
Who may be able to join
- Healthy parturients undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia in Beilinson Hospital.
Who cannot join
- Women in active labor
- Women with a twin pregnancy
- Women with chronic hypertension or hypertension or preeclampsia.
- Active medical or psychiatric disorders requiring regular medication.
- Women who have any contraindication for spinal anesthesia.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Israel1 site, 1 recruiting
- Recruiting
Beilinson hospital
Petach Tikvah
Sharon Orbach, MD, 972-54-538-3093, sharonorbach@yahoo.com
Sharon Orbach-zinger
About this study
Official title: The Effect of Preoperative Anxiety on Phenylephrine Dosage During Cesarean Delivery Under Spinal Anesthesia, A Prospective Observational Study.
Spinal anesthesia is considered gold standard anesthetic technique of choice for cesarean delivery (1). However its use is frequently associated with maternal hypotension, which occurs in up to 71% of cases, without prophylactic treatment(2) Spinal hypotension can lead to unpleasant maternal side effects such as nausea, vomiting and dizziness. In addition, adverse effects on the neonate occur because of reduced uteroplacental blood flow resulting in impaired fetal oxygenation and fetal acidosis. As such, current research recommends the prophylactic use of vasopressors for improved maternal and fetal outcomes(3).
The international consensus statement on the management of hypotension during cesarean delivery states, that a prophylactic phenylephrine infusion is superior to bolus administration and should be dose titrated according to blood pressure parameters (4). In according to the international guidelines, in our obstetric anesthesia unit, we use a standardized spinal anesthetic regime protocol with a standardized prophylactic phenylephrine infusion at a rate of 50 mcg/min, with the vasopressor dose titrated according to every minute blood pressure parameters.
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Spinal anesthesia causes maternal hypotension, resulting from a blockade of sympathetic efferent neurons. Patients with higher baseline sympathetic activation have been known to have more marked hypotension after spinal anesthesia (5, 6) Anxiety causes generalized sympathetic activation (7). In a previous research the investigators showed that preoperative anxiety assessed by VAS had a significant effect on hypotension after spinal anesthesia (8).
Study objective:
In this study the investigators aim to evaluate the effect of anxiety on the cumulative phenylephrine dosage in women undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine infusion. The primary hypothesis is that parturients who suffer from preoperative anxiety measured by a verbal numerical scale (VNS) anxiety score and Spielberger State-Trait Inventory questionnaire, will receive higher cumulative doses of phenylephrine (resulting from higher incidence of maternal hypotension).
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Methods:
This is a prospective, observational, single center study, which will be conducted at the Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson campus), Petach Tikva, Israel, a tertiary university hospital. This study Is a purely observational study, with no implication on the medical treatment provided.
Two hundred women aged 18 and above undergoing cesarean section delivery under spinal anesthesia will be enrolled after filling out an informed consent prior to surgery. Women will be requested to fill out an informed consent in the women's surgery waiting room on the day of surgery, when they aren't under any pain.
The parturients preoperative anxiety will be assessed in the women's waiting room, on the day of the surgery using two previously validated direct psychological measures of anxiety: verbal numerical scale (VNS) anxiety score (9, 10), and the Spielberger. State-Trait Inventory questionnaire (13).
Women will also be asked about nausea and vomiting during the surgery and in the post anesthesia care unit.
In according to standard departmental clinical practice, baseline blood pressure will be determined in the preoperative holding area by recording 3 times ≥ 3 minutes apart using an automated oscillometric blood pressure cuff on the arm with the patient supine with left uterine displacement, with the mean of the 3 values taken as a baseline systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Women will undergo spinal anesthesia and blood pressure will be measured evert minute during labor. Hypotension will be treated by titrating the phenylephrine infusion and by phenylephrine boluses, using a standardized algorithm according to departmental protocol. At the time of spinal injection, a phenylephrine infusion will be started at 50 mcg/min. The automated blood pressure cuff will be programmed to cycle each minute. When each new blood pressure result will appear, the phenylephrine infusion will be adjusted based on the systolic blood pressure by a standard algorithm.
Parturient's obstetric history, obstetric data and anesthetic data will be collected from each of the participant's medical file, in an anonymized way.
- Conditions
- Phenylephrine
- Being tested
- Anxiety questionnaire, VAS questionnaire
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Anxiety questionnaireOther
Spielberger. State-Trait Inventory questionnaire
VAS questionnaireOther
verbal numerical scale (VNS) anxiety score
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Women undergoing cesarean section | Women undergoing cesarean section under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine drip. Receives: Other: Anxiety questionnaire; Other: VAS questionnaire |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Total cumulative phenylephrine dosage in women undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine infusion.
Measured: During surgery -2 hours
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted5 Oct 2018
- Study start20 Oct 2018
- Primary completion20 Oct 2019 (estimated)
- Study completion20 Oct 2019 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (10)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for PhenylephrineStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Observational
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Enrolment
- 100 participants (estimated)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Rabin Medical Center
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, sharonorbach, Rabin Medical Center
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03696732
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- 450-18
- Status last verified
- Sep 2019
- First submitted
- 3 Oct 2018
- Last updated
- 20 Sep 2019
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided
Publications
Klohr S, Roth R, Hofmann T, Rossaint R, Heesen M. Definitions of hypotension after spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section: literature search and application to parturients. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2010 Sep;54(8):909-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2010.02239.x. Epub 2010 Apr 23.
PubMed 20455872Reynolds F, Seed PT. Anaesthesia for Caesarean section and neonatal acid-base status: a meta-analysis. Anaesthesia. 2005 Jul;60(7):636-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04223.x.
PubMed 15960713Higgins N, Fitzgerald PC, van Dyk D, Dyer RA, Rodriguez N, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA. The Effect of Prophylactic Phenylephrine and Ephedrine Infusions on Umbilical Artery Blood pH in Women With Preeclampsia Undergoing Cesarean Delivery With Spinal Anesthesia: A Randomized, Double-Blind Trial. Anesth Analg. 2018 Jun;126(6):1999-2006. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002524.
PubMed 28953494Kinsella SM, Carvalho B, Dyer RA, Fernando R, McDonnell N, Mercier FJ, Palanisamy A, Sia ATH, Van de Velde M, Vercueil A; Consensus Statement Collaborators. International consensus statement on the management of hypotension with vasopressors during caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Anaesthesia. 2018 Jan;73(1):71-92. doi: 10.1111/anae.14080. Epub 2017 Nov 1. No abstract available.
PubMed 29090733Hanss R, Bein B, Ledowski T, Lehmkuhl M, Ohnesorge H, Scherkl W, Steinfath M, Scholz J, Tonner PH. Heart rate variability predicts severe hypotension after spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean delivery. Anesthesiology. 2005 Jun;102(6):1086-93. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200506000-00005.
PubMed 15915018Hanss R, Ohnesorge H, Kaufmann M, Gaupp R, Ledowski T, Steinfath M, Scholz J, Bein B. Changes in heart rate variability may reflect sympatholysis during spinal anaesthesia. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2007 Nov;51(10):1297-304. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01455.x.
PubMed 17944631Roth WT, Doberenz S, Dietel A, Conrad A, Mueller A, Wollburg E, Meuret AE, Barr Taylor C, Kim S. Sympathetic activation in broadly defined generalized anxiety disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2008 Feb;42(3):205-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2006.12.003. Epub 2007 Jan 23.
PubMed 17250853Orbach-Zinger S, Ginosar Y, Elliston J, Fadon C, Abu-Lil M, Raz A, Goshen-Gottstein Y, Eidelman LA. Influence of preoperative anxiety on hypotension after spinal anaesthesia in women undergoing Caesarean delivery. Br J Anaesth. 2012 Dec;109(6):943-9. doi: 10.1093/bja/aes313. Epub 2012 Sep 10.
PubMed 22964265Vogelsang J. The Visual Analog Scale: an accurate and sensitive method for self-reporting preoperative anxiety. J Post Anesth Nurs. 1988 Aug;3(4):235-9. No abstract available.
PubMed 2457102Kindler CH, Harms C, Amsler F, Ihde-Scholl T, Scheidegger D. The visual analog scale allows effective measurement of preoperative anxiety and detection of patients' anesthetic concerns. Anesth Analg. 2000 Mar;90(3):706-12. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200003000-00036.
PubMed 10702461
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 20 Sep 2019. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- The Effect of Preoperative Anxiety on Phenylephrine Dosage During Cesarean Delivery Under Spinal Anesthesia, A Prospective Observational Study.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT03696732
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- 450-18
- Conditions
- Phenylephrine
- Study type
- Observational
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 100 participants (estimated)
- Lead sponsor
- Rabin Medical CenterUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 20 Oct 2018 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 20 Oct 2019 (estimated)
- Study completion
- 20 Oct 2019 (estimated)
- First posted
- 5 Oct 2018 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Spinal anesthesia is considered gold standard anesthetic technique of choice for cesarean delivery (1). However its use is frequently associated with maternal hypotension, which occurs in up to 71% of cases, without prophylactic treatment(2) Spinal hypotension can lead to unpleasant maternal side effects such as nausea, vomiting and dizziness. In addition, adverse effects on the neonate occur because of reduced uteroplacental blood flow resulting in impaired fetal oxygenation and fetal acidosis. As such, current research recommends the prophylactic use of vasopressors for improved maternal and fetal outcomes(3).
The international consensus statement on the management of hypotension during cesarean delivery states, that a prophylactic phenylephrine infusion is superior to bolus administration and should be dose titrated according to blood pressure parameters (4). In according to the international guidelines, in our obstetric anesthesia unit, we use a standardized spinal anesthetic regime protocol with a standardized prophylactic phenylephrine infusion at a rate of 50 mcg/min, with the vasopressor dose titrated according to every minute blood pressure parameters.
Spinal anesthesia causes maternal hypotension, resulting from a blockade of sympathetic efferent neurons. Patients with higher baseline sympathetic activation have been known to have more marked hypotension after spinal anesthesia (5, 6) Anxiety causes generalized sympathetic activation (7). In a previous research the investigators showed that preoperative anxiety assessed by VAS had a significant effect on hypotension after spinal anesthesia (8).
Study objective:
In this study the investigators aim to evaluate the effect of anxiety on the cumulative phenylephrine dosage in women undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine infusion. The primary hypothesis is that parturients who suffer from preoperative anxiety measured by a verbal numerical scale (VNS) anxiety score and Spielberger State-Trait Inventory questionnaire, will receive higher cumulative doses of phenylephrine (resulting from higher incidence of maternal hypotension).
Detailed description
Methods:
This is a prospective, observational, single center study, which will be conducted at the Rabin Medical Center (Beilinson campus), Petach Tikva, Israel, a tertiary university hospital. This study Is a purely observational study, with no implication on the medical treatment provided.
Two hundred women aged 18 and above undergoing cesarean section delivery under spinal anesthesia will be enrolled after filling out an informed consent prior to surgery. Women will be requested to fill out an informed consent in the women's surgery waiting room on the day of surgery, when they aren't under any pain.
The parturients preoperative anxiety will be assessed in the women's waiting room, on the day of the surgery using two previously validated direct psychological measures of anxiety: verbal numerical scale (VNS) anxiety score (9, 10), and the Spielberger. State-Trait Inventory questionnaire (13).
Women will also be asked about nausea and vomiting during the surgery and in the post anesthesia care unit.
In according to standard departmental clinical practice, baseline blood pressure will be determined in the preoperative holding area by recording 3 times ≥ 3 minutes apart using an automated oscillometric blood pressure cuff on the arm with the patient supine with left uterine displacement, with the mean of the 3 values taken as a baseline systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Women will undergo spinal anesthesia and blood pressure will be measured evert minute during labor. Hypotension will be treated by titrating the phenylephrine infusion and by phenylephrine boluses, using a standardized algorithm according to departmental protocol. At the time of spinal injection, a phenylephrine infusion will be started at 50 mcg/min. The automated blood pressure cuff will be programmed to cycle each minute. When each new blood pressure result will appear, the phenylephrine infusion will be adjusted based on the systolic blood pressure by a standard algorithm.
Parturient's obstetric history, obstetric data and anesthetic data will be collected from each of the participant's medical file, in an anonymized way.
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
- Time perspective
- Prospective
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Women undergoing cesarean section | – | Other: Anxiety questionnaire, Other: VAS questionnaireWomen undergoing cesarean section under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine drip. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 years and older
- Sex
- Female only
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
- Study population
- Two hundred healthy term parturients, over 18 years old, with healthy singleton pregnancy, undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia in Beilinson Hospital, following obtaining written informed consents forums with the ability to comply with the study requirements will be included in our study.
Key inclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Healthy parturients undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia in Beilinson Hospital.
Key exclusion criteria (5 listed)
- Women in active labor
- Women with a twin pregnancy
- Women with chronic hypertension or hypertension or preeclampsia.
- Active medical or psychiatric disorders requiring regular medication.
- Women who have any contraindication for spinal anesthesia.
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Anxiety questionnaireSpielberger. State-Trait Inventory questionnaire | Other | Women undergoing cesarean section |
| VAS questionnaireverbal numerical scale (VNS) anxiety score | Other | Women undergoing cesarean section |
Primary outcome
Total cumulative phenylephrine dosage in women undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine infusion.
Time frame: During surgery -2 hours
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 20 Sep 2019.
- Background: PubMed 20455872Klohr S, Roth R, Hofmann T, Rossaint R, Heesen M. Definitions of hypotension after spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section: literature search and application to parturients. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2010 Sep;54(8):909-21. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2010.02239.x. Epub 2010 Apr 23.
- Background: PubMed 15960713Reynolds F, Seed PT. Anaesthesia for Caesarean section and neonatal acid-base status: a meta-analysis. Anaesthesia. 2005 Jul;60(7):636-53. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04223.x.
- Background: PubMed 28953494Higgins N, Fitzgerald PC, van Dyk D, Dyer RA, Rodriguez N, McCarthy RJ, Wong CA. The Effect of Prophylactic Phenylephrine and Ephedrine Infusions on Umbilical Artery Blood pH in Women With Preeclampsia Undergoing Cesarean Delivery With Spinal Anesthesia: A Randomized, Double-Blind Trial. Anesth Analg. 2018 Jun;126(6):1999-2006. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002524.
- Background: PubMed 29090733Kinsella SM, Carvalho B, Dyer RA, Fernando R, McDonnell N, Mercier FJ, Palanisamy A, Sia ATH, Van de Velde M, Vercueil A; Consensus Statement Collaborators. International consensus statement on the management of hypotension with vasopressors during caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Anaesthesia. 2018 Jan;73(1):71-92. doi: 10.1111/anae.14080. Epub 2017 Nov 1. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 15915018Hanss R, Bein B, Ledowski T, Lehmkuhl M, Ohnesorge H, Scherkl W, Steinfath M, Scholz J, Tonner PH. Heart rate variability predicts severe hypotension after spinal anesthesia for elective cesarean delivery. Anesthesiology. 2005 Jun;102(6):1086-93. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200506000-00005.
- Background: PubMed 17944631Hanss R, Ohnesorge H, Kaufmann M, Gaupp R, Ledowski T, Steinfath M, Scholz J, Bein B. Changes in heart rate variability may reflect sympatholysis during spinal anaesthesia. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. 2007 Nov;51(10):1297-304. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01455.x.
- Background: PubMed 17250853Roth WT, Doberenz S, Dietel A, Conrad A, Mueller A, Wollburg E, Meuret AE, Barr Taylor C, Kim S. Sympathetic activation in broadly defined generalized anxiety disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2008 Feb;42(3):205-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2006.12.003. Epub 2007 Jan 23.
- Background: PubMed 22964265Orbach-Zinger S, Ginosar Y, Elliston J, Fadon C, Abu-Lil M, Raz A, Goshen-Gottstein Y, Eidelman LA. Influence of preoperative anxiety on hypotension after spinal anaesthesia in women undergoing Caesarean delivery. Br J Anaesth. 2012 Dec;109(6):943-9. doi: 10.1093/bja/aes313. Epub 2012 Sep 10.
- Background: PubMed 2457102Vogelsang J. The Visual Analog Scale: an accurate and sensitive method for self-reporting preoperative anxiety. J Post Anesth Nurs. 1988 Aug;3(4):235-9. No abstract available.
- Background: PubMed 10702461Kindler CH, Harms C, Amsler F, Ihde-Scholl T, Scheidegger D. The visual analog scale allows effective measurement of preoperative anxiety and detection of patients' anesthetic concerns. Anesth Analg. 2000 Mar;90(3):706-12. doi: 10.1097/00000539-200003000-00036.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided
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Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
An observational study of Phenylephrine, run by Rabin Medical Center at 1 site in Israel.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 5 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 20 Sep 2019. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Israel. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
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What does the primary outcome measure?
Total cumulative phenylephrine dosage in women undergoing cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia with prophylactic phenylephrine infusion. (time frame: During surgery -2 hours). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT03696732, which also lists 10 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
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AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 20 Sep 2019.