Continuous Spinal Anesthesia Versus General Anesthesia in Sepsis

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-11-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The anesthetic efficacy and safety of continuous spinal anesthesia and comparing it with general anesthesia technique in sepsis diagnosed patient.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mahmoud Rashad Ahmed
• Treatments: Anesthetics

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients over 21 years old

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (III, IV) diagnosed with sepsis (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score ≥ 7)

• Hemodynamically stable and not on vasopressor due to lower limb pathology candidate for spinal anesthesia to drain source of infection.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with known hypersensitivity to local anesthesia.

• Infection at the site of injection.

• Coagulopathy.

• Septic shock.

• Increase of intracranial pressure.

• Severe deformity of the spinal column.