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Pre-operative Olanzapine as Prophylactic Antiemetic in Oncologic Patients

Pre-operative Olanzapine as Prophylactic Antiemetic in Oncologic Patients

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03631004
Enrollment
100
Registered
2018-08-15
Start date
2018-10-01
Completion date
2021-02-10
Last updated
2022-01-13

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Conditions

Postoperative Nausea, Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

Keywords

nausea and vomiting

Brief summary

Olanzapine has been used as prophylactic antiemetic for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting. The project aims to evaluate the efficacy of olanzapine in combination with ondansetron and dexamethasone in patients at high risk of postoperative nausea and vomiting, with previous history of nausea and vomiting induced by prior chemotherapy, submitted to medium and large surgery.

Detailed description

Double blinded randomized clinical trial. Fifty patients will be selected for each group. Group A will receive 10mg olanzapine in the preoperative and group B will receive placebo in the preoperative period. Both groups will receive intravenous general anesthesia combined with epidural. All patients will receive epidural PCA. The primary outcome of this study is the incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting. The power of analysis was based on the following parameters: type error I (α = 0.05), error II (β = 0.8), 95% confidence interval and hypothesis test two-tailed. Thus, 42 patients are indicated per group to obtain reduction of the incidence of nausea and / or vomiting of the population risk from 60% to 30%. The population will be composed of 100 patients because it is assumed that percentage of loss of 10% per group. The statistical analysis will be performed in program R version 3.5.1. The results obtained will be presented as mean + standard deviation for continuous data or absolute frequency for described data. For quantitative variables, the Student's t-test will be used for with normal distribution or Mann-Whitney for non-distributed data normal. For qualitative variables, the chi-square test will be used or Fisher's exact test. Significant difference is defined as p, 0.05. Data will be collected and managed using REDCap data capture tools

Interventions

DRUGOlanzapine

olanzapine 10 mg is given before surgery

Sponsors

Instituto do Cancer do Estado de São Paulo
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patients submitted to medium and large surgeries in the thoracic or abdominal region (mastectomies, breast plastic, hysterectomies, annexectomies, gynecological pelvic surgeries, colectomies, rettosigmoidectomies) under general anesthesia * Patients aged between 18 and 60 years * Patients considered to be at high risk for PONV according to the Apfel scale (Apfel 3 or 4) * Patients with a history of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.

Exclusion criteria

* Pregnancy or Lactation * Current use of typical anti-psychotic medications or atypical * History of allergy to olanzapine * Myocardial infarction or unstable angina in the 6 months prior to the day of surgery planning * History of severe ventricular arrhythmia (eg, VT or VF) * Heart Failure Class II or greater second NYHA * Postural hypotension or vasovagal syncope in the 6 months prior to the day of surgery planning * Narrow angle glaucoma * Parkinson's disease * Dementia * Inability to swallow medicines * QT interval history greater than 450ms or torsades de pointes * Patient does not want to participate in the study * Videolaparoscopy surgery * Contraindication for neuraxial block

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting0-24 hoursnausea and vomiting/ retching (dichotomous variable)

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting0-6 hoursnausea and vomiting/ retching (dichotomous variable)
incidence of postoperative nausea0-6 hoursnausea and vomiting/ retching (dichotomous variable)
incidence of side effects0-6 hoursside effects
incidence of severe PONV0-6 hoursThis scale consists of four questions. Each question generates a different score. For the first question, if the patient vomited or retched three or more times, the final score was 50. Otherwise, the highest score from question 1 or question 2 was multiplied by the scores of question 3 and question 4, yielding the final value. When the score was ≥ 50, the symptom was considered clinically important.
incidence of nausea severity0-6 hoursmild, moderate, or severe
incidence of postoperative vomiting/retching0-6 hoursvomiting/ retching (dichotomous variable)

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026