Isoflurane Preconditioning for Liver Resections

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2012-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The objective is to examine the efficacy of isoflurane (inhaled anesthetic gas) to induce clinically effective preconditioning in patients undergoing elective hepatic surgery.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Isoflurane; Propofol

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with liver tumors undergoing liver resection of > 1 segment liver resection must be performed with inflow occlusion > 30 min

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients undergoing liver resection of one segment or less

• patients undergoing laparoscopic liver resection

• patients in whom the liver resection is performed with no inflow occlusion or inflow occlusion of < 30 min