Abstract
Purpose
Anxiety and pain commonly occur during nerve block, we aimed to investigate the sedation efficacy of different doses of remimazolam with sufentanil in young and elderly patients.
Methods
In this randomized trial, patients aged 18–85 years who underwent nerve block was enrolled. All patients received sufentanil 0.08 μg/kg for analgesia. Young patients (age < 65 years) were randomized into the control group (Group C, 0.9% saline), medium-dose remimazolam (Group M, 0.06 mg/kg) and high-dose remimazolam group (Group H, 0.08 mg/kg). Elderly patients (age ≥ 65 years) were randomized into the Group C, low-dose remimazolam group (Group L, 0.04 mg/kg) and Group M. Primary outcome was the success rate of procedure sedation. Respiratory depression and hypoxia were the interested safety outcomes.
Results
Ninety young and 114 elderly patients were enrolled, respectively. In comparison with Groups C and M, young patients in Group H had the highest success rate of procedure sedation (80.0 vs. 73.3 vs. 43.3%, P = 0.006). Elderly patients in Groups M and L had similar success rates of procedure sedation, which were significantly higher than that in Group C (78.9 vs. 78.9 vs. 50.0%, P = 0.007). In elderly patients, the incidence of respiratory depression and hypoxia tended to be higher in Group M than those in Groups L and C (both P < 0.001).
Conclusion
Remimazolam 0.08 mg/kg provided the best sedation efficacy in young patients while remimazolam 0.04 mg/kg with the trend of less respiratory adverse events was more optimal for elderly patients.
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Introduction
Peripheral nerve block presents significant clinical benefits in perioperative pain management [1]. With advanced development in ultrasound technique and its guidance, this invasive procedure can be completed within several minutes. However, any medical intervention embeds with potential risks. The incidences of anxiety and pain are about 60 and 50%, respectively, in patients receiving nerve block at first time [2]. Both of them are considered as major contributors to failure of nerve block, nerve damage, puncture of blood vessels, and visceral organs [2,3,4].
It is still controversial whether sedation and analgesia should be proposed routinely for nerve block [5]. Procedure sedation is the most common method to alleviate anxiety and pain, during which patient’s consciousness level can purposefully respond to verbal commands or light tactile stimulation [6]. Compared to awake, procedure sedation for nerve block was associated with a 20% reduction of repeated attempts and a 40% reduction of block failure in a large registry analysis including 42, 654 patients [7]. Opposing opinion argues that use of sedatives and analgesics (i.e., midazolam and opioids) increases the risk of over-sedation, hypoxia, nausea and vomiting [7]. Selecting optimal dose of drugs may facilitate to reduce those adverse events [8]. However, potential risk still exists because traditional sedative drugs usually have a relative long-acting time which is much longer than the time needed to perform nerve block, for example, the elimination half-life of midazolam is about 2 h [9].
Remimazolam, an ultrashort-acting benzodiazepine, presents advantage in fast onset, relatively short recovery time with a context-sensitive half time only 6.8 min [10, 11]. Studies showed that remimazolam was associated with superior sedation efficacy to midazolam or propofol in patients undergoing endoscopy [12, 13]. However, there is limited evidence to illustrate its efficacy and safety during nerve block.
Present study was designed to investigate the sedation efficacy of different doses of remimazolam with sufentanil in young and elderly patients who received nerve block, respectively.
Methods
Ethics approval
This randomized, double-blind, controlled study conformed to the standards of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of Peking University First Hospital (Ethical Committee no. 2020-426) on 5 January 2021. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants before enrollment. The current study adhered to the CONSORT guidelines and was registered prior to patient enrollment at the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=122016, ChiCTR2100043530, Date of registration: 21 February, 2021).
Study design and participants
Patients aged 18–85 years who received nerve block before surgery were enrolled. Present study was conducted to investigate the efficacy of remimazolam for procedure sedation with different regimens in the young (aged < 65 years) and elderly (aged ≥ 65 years) patients separately. The two parts shared the same exclusion criteria: (1) nerve block contraindications including local infection, coagulopathy, and abnormal anatomy; (2) allergy to local anesthetics and benzodiazepines; (3) chronic opioid addiction or use of other analgesics for more than 3 months; (4) inability to communicate due to severe dementia, language barrier or end-stage diseases; or (5) American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status of 4 or above.
Randomization and masking method
Random numbers were generated for each part using the SAS statistical package version 9.3 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA) in a ratio of 1:1:1 with a block size of 6. Random numbers were enveloped in opaque bags and were allocated to participants in sequence before nerve block.
Trial drugs (either remimazolam or normal saline) were colorless and were prepared with the same brand syringes by a designated nurse (J-M W) who did not take part in drug administration and outcome evaluation. Thus, blind method was kept to patients, researchers in charge of outcome assessment and other healthcare providers.
Group allocation and intervention
All patients received 0.08 μg/kg sufentnail for prior analgesia. Young patients were randomized to control group (Group C, normal saline), medium-dose (Group M, 0.06 mg/kg) and high-dose (Group H, 0.08 mg/kg) remimazolam for procedure sedation. In elderly patients, the dose of remimazolam was reduced to low-dose (Group L, 0.04 mg/kg) and medium-dose (Group M, 0.06 mg/kg).
Procedure sedation and data collection
Baseline data including demographic characteristics, comorbidities, and education years were recorded. Subjective sleep quality at the night before surgery was assessed with the numeric rating score (NRS, a 11-point scale where 0 indicating the best sleep and 10 indicating the worst sleep). Preoperative anxiety was assessed by State Trait Anxiety Inventory-6 (STAI-6, ranged from 6 to 24, with higher score indicating heavier anxiety status) [14].
No premedication was given in prior. Patients received standard monitoring including heart rate (HR), non-invasive systolic blood pressure (SBP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP), respiratory rate (RR), pulse oxygen saturation (SpO2), and bispectral index (BIS). Sufentnail 0.08 μg/kg was given to all patients via venous access. Two minutes later, trial drugs were administered by attending anesthesiologists. Sedation level was assessed by the modified observer’s assessment of alert/sedation scale (MOAA/S). MOAA/S is a 6-point scale for sedation level assessment (5 for awake, 4 for light sedation, 2–3 for moderate sedation, 0–1 for deep sedation) [15, 16].
Ultrasound-guided nerve block was initiated once MOAA/S score reached to 4 or less. A dose of 0.02 mg/kg remimazolam was added for rescue sedation and could be repeated if necessary. Pain intensity was assessed with the numeric rating score (NRS, a 11-point scale where 0 for no pain and 10 for the worst pain) during the block. If patients complained moderate or severe pain (defined as NRS score ≥ 4), a rescued dose of 0.04 μg/kg sufentanil could be added. NRS of pain was recorded as 0 if patients were in deep sedation (MOAA/S score ≤ 1).
Once SpO2 was less than 90%, oxygen was delivered through mask with verbal and tactile stimulation, jaw-thrust and manual-assisted ventilation could be used in necessary.
Outcomes
Primary outcome was the success rate of procedure sedation, which met with the five criteria simultaneously during the nerve block: (1) MOAA/S score ≤ 4; (2) no unintended body movements which interfered with manipulation of nerve block; (3) no complaint of moderate or severe pain; (4) no requirement for rescue sedation or analgesic medication; and (5) increment of blood pressure and heart rate within 20% baseline value.
Secondary outcomes included the following items: (1) the onset time of sedation (the time interval from initial administration of trial drugs to MOAA/S score ≤ 4); (2) the worst pain score during the block; (3) time consumption of the nerve block (from puncture of skin to withdraw the needle); (4) percentage of using rescued drugs; (5) recovery time (the time interval from last dose of sedatives to MOAA/S score = 5); (6) satisfaction score of sedation from patients and anesthesiologists, assessed with visual analogue scale (VAS, a continuous scale ranged from 0 to 100, where 0 = extremely dissatisfied and 100 = very satisfied) at 30 min after initially administrating trial drugs; (7) BIS, HR, MAP values every 1 min within the first 5 min after administrating trial drugs and then every 5 min thereafter up to 30 min.
Safety outcomes were monitored from administration of trial drugs to 30 min later. Trial-related adverse events included: hypotension (SBP < 90 mmHg), hypertension (SBP > 180 mmHg), bradycardia (HR < 50 beats per minute), tachycardia (HR > 100 beats per minute); respiratory depression (RR < 10 rates per minute), hypoxia (SpO2 < 90%), nausea and vomiting.
Statistical analysis
Sample size estimation
In our routine practice, the success rate of procedure sedation was about 40% in young patients and 50% in elderly patients when used sufentanil only. Based on preliminary observation, additional use of 0.06 mg/kg remimazolam in 20 young patients and 0.04 mg/kg in 20 elder patients increased the success rate to 75 and 80%, respectively. Assumed the significance level at 0.05, power at 0.8, and a drop-out rate of 5%, the sample size required to detect difference was 90 in the young patients and 114 in the elderly patients. Sample size calculation was performed with the PASS software (version 15.0, NCSS PASS, Utah, USA).
Outcome analysis
Normally distributed continuous variables were compared using analysis of variance (ANOVA) if the homogeneity of variance assumptions was satisfied. Nonnormally distributed continuous variables and ordinal data were compared using the Kruskal–Wallis test. Categorical variables were compared with χ2 test or Fischer’s exact test. Repeatedly measured variables (BIS, HR, MAP) were compared with the two-way repeated measures ANOVA.
Our primary outcome, the success rate of procedure sedation was compared with χ2 test, with differences between groups expressed as relative risk and 95% CI. Regarding to pairwise comparation of nonnormally distributed continuous data in secondary outcomes, the median differences and their 95% CI between groups were estimated by Hodges–Lehmann method. Intention- to-treat (ITT) analysis was performed for this study.
A two-sided P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. The Bonferroni method was used to adjust for multiple comparison. All statistical analyses were performed with the SPSS 26.0 software (IBM SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Result
Participants
From April 6, 2021 to September 1, 2021, a total of 223 patients were screened for eligibility. Ninety young patients (30 in each group) and 114 elderly patients (38 in each group) were randomized, respectively. No patient was lost during follow-up (Fig. 1).
All baseline data in young and elderly patients were balanced among each group except the total dose of remimazolam (Table 1). The trends of BIS, MAP, and HR were depicted in Fig. 2. Repeated measure ANOVA of BIS value showed that, in young and elderly patients, the decrease of BIS value was dose-dependent and the mean BIS value in patients receiving remimazolam were significantly lower than that in Group C (all P < 0.05). However, the mean BIS value was only significantly different between Group L and Group M in elderly patients (mean difference = 2.2, 95% CI 0.1–4.3, adjusted P = 0.041). No significant difference was found among groups in terms of the mean value of MAP in all patients. The effect of remimazolam on HR seemed minimal except that 0.06 mg/kg remimazolam leaded to an obvious HR decease in the first 5 min in elderly patients.
Primary outcome
For young patients in Group H, the success rate of procedure sedation was significantly higher than that in patients who received medium dosage of remimazolam and control group (80.0% in Group H, 73.3% in Group M, and 43.3% in Group C, P = 0.006, Table 2). Pairwise comparison showed that statistical difference only existed between Group H and Group C (RR = 1.85, 95% CI 1.18–2.89, P = 0.003, Table S1).
Elderly patients who received either medium or low dose of remimazolam had similar success rate of procedure sedation (78.9% in Group M vs. 78.9% in Group L, P > 0.999), both of which were significantly higher than that in Group C (50.0%, both P = 0.008, Table 2 and Table S2).
Secondary outcomes
As Table 2 showed, in combination with any dose of remimazolam, the onset time was shortened by 1 min either in young patients or elderly patients (all P < 0.001, Tables S1–2), while the recovery time was prolonged (both P < 0.001). Patients who were treated by remimazolam had less pain intensity, less rescued drugs requirement during nerve block, and higher patient satisfaction score in comparison with control group (all P < 0.05). Anesthesiologist satisfaction score was similar in each young groups (P = 0.385), but it was differed between Group L and control group in elderly patients (P = 0.003, Table S2).
Safety outcome
Regarding to safety outcomes listed in Table 3, patients given remimazolam were more likely to experience respiratory depression (P = 0.003, P < 0.001) and hypoxia (P = 0.043, P < 0.001), however, the percentage of jaw-thrust was similar among groups (P = 0.770, P = 0.772). To be noted, the percentage of patients who were fully aware of the block was less in patients given remimazolam (both P < 0.001). The percentage of hypotension, hypertension, as well as nausea and vomiting were similar among groups in all patients.
Discussion
Present study showed that supplementation of remimazolam to sufentanil improved the success rate of procedure sedation both in young and elderly patients during nerve block. These patients also experienced lower pain intensity and higher self-reported satisfaction. To be noted, remimazolam 0.08 mg/kg provided the best sedation efficacy in young patients while remimazolam 0.04 mg/kg with the trend of less respiratory adverse events was more optimal for elderly patients.
MOAA/S was commonly used for perioperative assessment of sedation level, especially for procedure sedation [13, 17]. Because ultrasound-guided nerve block could be completed in a short time, the aim of sedation depth in our study was set at MOAA/S score of 3–4. This was different from studies in endoscopy and bronchoscopy which required deep sedation (i.e., MOAA/S score of 1–2) to overcome relative strong stimulations [13, 18].
Remimazolam was usually given as a single fixed dose in most studies. A recent study simulating population pharmacodynamic with Markov mixed-effects model showed that 5 mg remimazolam with fentanyl provided superior sedation in comparison with dose of 4 or 6 mg [19]. Contrary to previous studies, we conducted a weight-based regimen of remimazolam administration, which was individualized for patient’s age. We proposed that adequate sedation could be reached with less dosage of remimazolam in elderly patients because of a decrement in physiological reservation (i.e., frail status). This was supported by Liu and colleague’s study which found that the median effective dose (ED50) and ED95 of remimazolam for anesthesia induction were both lower in patients aged above 70 years than those in younger patients [20]. Although body weight did not affect the systemic clearance of remimazolam, sedation level of remimazolam indeed increased positively with its dose. It was reported that in healthy volunteers, remimazolam dosed at 0.05 mg/kg only resulted in small reductions in MOAA/S scores (to 4) and BIS value (to 75) while doses of 0.075 mg/kg and above resulted in deeper sedation, as evidenced by MOAA/S scores of ≤ 2 and mean BIS value of 60–70 soon after dosing [21]. A weight-based regimen considering patients’ age for procedure sedation was more flexible and adhered to real-world clinical practice.
Our study showed that the success rate of procedure sedation was significantly increased in patients treated with remimazolam. To our knowledge, this was the first study to investigate the sedation efficacy of remimazolam during nerve block. In young patients, the success rate was positively associated with the increment of remimazolam dosage, i.e., from 43.3% in control group to 80.0% in high dose of remimazolam. In elderly patients, we also noticed that higher dose of remimazolam was associated with an increased trend of adverse effects such as respiratory depression and hypoxemia. Elderly patients also experienced longer duration of recovery time which was up to 15 min with remimazolam dosed at 0.06 mg/kg, which was consistent with previous study [19]. Clinical meaning of our data indicated that the observation time after procedure sedation should be extended in elderly patients even the elimination half-life of remimazolam was only several minutes.
Success rate of nerve block can be affected by many predisposing factors such as anxiety and sleep. Preoperative anxiety status and sleep quality was comparable among each group in the present study. Patients who received remimazolam had lower pain intensity during nerve block and higher score of self-reported satisfaction. It seemed that remimazolam may enhance the analgesic effect of opioids via synergistic effects [19].
Our study had some limitations. First, pharmacodynamic parameters of remimazolam with sufentanil were not examined. Second, dose of sufentanil was fixed in our present study, and further studies should be taken to search optimal combination regimen of remimazolam and sufentanil. Third, generalization of our result to other clinical scenario with severe pain procedure should be cautioned because these procedures may need more analgesics with opioids.
Conclusion
Present study showed that supplementation of remimazolam to sufentanil improved the success rate of procedure sedation both in young and elderly patients during nerve block. Remimazolam 0.08 mg/kg provided the best sedation efficacy in young patients while remimazolam 0.04 mg/kg with the trend of less respiratory adverse events was more suitable for elderly patients.
Data availability
The dataset analysed in the current study is available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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This trial was supported by the National High Level Hospital Clinical Research Funding (High Quality Clinical Research Project of Peking University First Hospital 2022CR74) and the 2020 Perioperative Sedation and Analgesia Funding of Bethune Charitable Foundation.
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Conceptualization: XL, Y-TL, D-LM; Methodology: TB, K-Q X, Z-ZX; Formal analysis and investigation: TB, X-QL; Writing—original draft preparation: XL; Writing—review and editing: Y-TL, D-LM.
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Li, X., Bu, T., Li, YT. et al. Sedation efficacy of different dose of remimazolam with sufentanil for nerve block in young and elderly patients: a randomized, controlled study. J Anesth 37, 177–185 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-022-03142-8
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