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A Study of Huperzine A Injection in Reducing Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Patients Undergoing Non-cardiac Surgery

A Multi-center, Randomized, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled Study of Huperzine A Injection in Reducing Postoperative Delirium in Elderly Patients Undergoing Non-cardiac Surgery

Status
Recruiting
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05242419
Enrollment
40
Registered
2022-02-16
Start date
2022-06-10
Completion date
2025-12-30
Last updated
2025-04-02

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Conditions

Injection, Non-cardiac Surgery, Delirium in Old Age, Post Operative Delirium

Keywords

Huperzine A Injection, postoperative delirium, Non-cardiac Surgery, Elderly Patients

Brief summary

To observe and study the clinical effect of Huperzine A Injection on reducing postoperative delirium in elderly patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery

Interventions

0.9% Sodium Chloride Injection

Huperzine A Injection

Sponsors

Affiliated Wenling Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University
CollaboratorOTHER
Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

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

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
75 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* ≥ 75 years old. * Comply with the indication of non-cardiac surgery under general anesthesia. * Anesthesia grade of American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) as III\ IV grade. * The estimated operation time ≥ 2 hours. * Voluntarily sign the informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

* Patients with impaired renal function (Cr is 1.5 times higher than the upper limit of the normal value of the central laboratory) or abnormal liver function (Alanine aminotransferase(ALT) and Aspartate aminotransferase(AST) are 2 times higher than the upper limit of the normal value of the central laboratory). * Patients who are positive for infectious diseases. * Patients accompanied with central nervous system injury. * Patients with previous history of delirium and epilepsy, long-term use of psychoactive drugs or preoperative assessment of delirium. * Patients who involved diseases with drug taboos, bronchial asthma, mechanical intestinal obstruction and urinary tract obstruction, or serious systemic diseases, especially circulatory diseases: such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, angina pectoris, history of sinus bradycardia. * Patients who are known to be allergic to narcotic drugs or Huperzine A Injection, or must use drugs that are not compatible with Huperzine An Injection. * patients who participated in other clinical trials within 3 months before this study, for any reason, who could not tolerate the test or cooperate with the examination, or who has any aphasia, audio-visual dysfunction, etc. * the investigators think that the patients is not suitable to participate in this study.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Incidence of delirium within 7 days after operation7 days after operationDelirium will be evaluated by The 3-dimensional Confusion Assessment Method(3D-CAM) and delirium rating scale-revised-98(DRS-R-98) scale form.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
severity of deliriumevaluated at screening, 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours after operationdiagnosed by delirium rating scale-revised-98(DRS-R-98) scale form
duration of deliriumevaluated at screening, 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours after operationdiagnosed by delirium rating scale-revised-98(DRS-R-98) scale form
length of hospital stayfrom the day of operation to the day of discharge, around 7 to 14 daystotal number of days of hospital stay
Economic indicators (total hospitalization cost, anesthesia cost, operation cost).through study completion, up to 2 monthscosts at hospital
type of deliriumevaluated at screening, 24 hours, 48 hours, 72 hours after operationdiagnosed by delirium rating scale-revised-98(DRS-R-98) scale form
Incidence of Mortalitythe day of hospital discharge, and the day of follow-up, around 30 days after dischargerate of Mortality during the hospital stay and follow-up within 30 days after discharge
the total score of Mini-mental State Examination scaleevaluated at screening, 72 hours after operation, and the day of follow-up, around 30 days after dischargeMini-mental State Examination scale
the score of EuroQol (EQ-5D) scale96 hours after operation, the day of hospital discharge, and the day of follow-up, around 30 days after dischargeEQ-5D scale
Occurrence of complicationsthrough study completion, up to 2 monthspulmonary infection, myocardial infarction, renal failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactTing Li, MD. PhD
liting1021@aliyun.com13587876896

Outcome results

None listed

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