Clinical trial NCT06403852: Investigating Near-Threshold Perception During Anesthetic Sedation
Official title: Investigating Near-Threshold Perception During Anesthetic Sedation
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Propofol
Anesthesia
fMRI
Keywords: Hypnotics and Sedatives
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anesthetics, Intravenous
Anesthetics, General
Anesthetics
Propofol
Lead sponsor: University of Michigan
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
First posted: 2024-05-08
Enrollment: 28
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

Brief summary: The researchers expect to gain a deeper understanding of mental function during different levels of anesthesia, and to evaluate if the use of ultrasonic brain stimulation accelerates return to consciousness.

Propofol is FDA approved for use in patients undergoing an anesthetic for medical treatment but is not approved for use in healthy volunteers.

Detailed description: The stimulus set will include real and scrambled images, where the scrambled images will be created by phase-shuffling a randomly chosen real image from each category to preserve category specific low-level image features. Because scrambled images do not include an object stimulus, the images are used as "catch trials" to determine the subjects' baseline tendency to give positive responses to a question about the subjects' recognition experience. Each object category will include four unique real images and one scrambled image. Each image will be repeated 10 times (i.e., trials) for each 16-min session. The pre-stimulus interval will vary randomly from trial to trial between 4 and 8 seconds to prevent stimulus timing predictability. The stimuli will be presented in a randomized order to prevent category predictability.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Healthy study subjects with American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)-1 status.
* Right-handed
* Body mass index (BMI) less than 30.
* All subjects will be English speakers.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Medical contraindication to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning; are unable to undergo MRI scanning because of possible pregnancy or currently breastfeeding, BMI\>30, metallic substances in the body, claustrophobia, anxiety, or cardiopulmonary disease; or have an intracranial structural abnormality on T1-weighted MRI scans.
* History of allergy to propofol, eggs or egg products, soybean or soybean products, neurological, cardiovascular, or pulmonary illness; significant head injury with loss of consciousness; learning disability or other developmental disorder; sleep apnea or any severe snoring history; gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or heartburn; pancreatitis or a history of pancreatitis, or sensory/motor loss sufficient to interfere with performance of the study.
* Tattoos in the head or neck region will be excluded from study; other tattoos are subject to determination by investigators based on their assessment regarding participant safety. To eliminate aspiration risk subjects will also be excluded if they have had recent food or liquid intake (within 8 hours).
* History of drug use, have a positive drug screen, are unwilling to abstain from alcohol for 24 hours prior to dosing, or have a current history of nicotine use.
* Pregnancy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Blood Oxygen Level Dependent (BOLD) response to visual stimuli
timeFrame: Up to 90 minutes
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Perceptual criterion (c) derived from the Signal Detection Theory (SDT)
timeFrame: Up to 90 minutes
measure: Sensitivity (d') criterion derived from the Signal Detection Theory (SDT)
timeFrame: Up to 90 minutes
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ann Arbor
country: United States
facility: University of Michigan
state: Michigan
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Michigan
name: Zirui Huang
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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