Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:02 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 2:02 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03052660
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
1. 1\. Only legally competent patients
2. Written informed consent prior to study participation
3. 65-80 years
4. Elective surgery
5. Expected surgery duration ≥ 30 minutes
6. Planned general or combined regional and general anaesthesia
7. Planned extubation at the end of surgery
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Age \> 80 years
2. Age \< 65 years
3. Non-fluency in German language
4. Alcohol and/ or drugs abuse
5. Chronic benzodiazepine treatment
6. Intracranial surgery
7. Local and stand by anaesthesia or solely regional anaesthesia
8. Monitored anaesthesia care
9. Cardiac surgery
10. Ambulatory surgery
11. Repeated surgery
12. Contraindications for benzodiazepine application (e.g. sleep apnoea syndrome, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergy)
13. Allergy against any component of the Placebo (lactose monohydrate, cellulose powder, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose) or investigational drug (midazolam, lactose) or the capsules (gelatine, E171 titanium dioxide, E132 indigotine).
14. Expected benzodiazepine requirement after surgery
15. Expected continuous mandatory ventilation after surgery
16. Patients who explicitly request anxiolytic premedication
17. Patients with severe neurological or psychiatric disorders
18. Refusal of study participation by the patient
19. Parallel participation in interventional clinical studies within the last 30 days
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
65 Years
Maximum Age:
80 Years
Study:
NCT03052660
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03052660