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Actigraphic assessment of the preoperative hypnotic effects of brotizolam and zopiclone.

Author(s): Kawahara R, Nishimura S, Inagaki Y, Taenaka N, Kawahara H

Affiliation(s): Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka Seamen's Insurance Hospital, 1-8-30 Chikkoh Minato-ku Osaka-city, Osaka, Japan. kawahara@pedsurg.med.osakau.ac.jp

Publication date & source: 2002, Acta Anaesthesiol Belg., 53(1):27-31.

Publication type: Clinical Trial; Comparative Study; Randomized Controlled Trial

Brotizolam and zopiclone have a common ability to bind to the benzodiazepine recognition site and have been used as useful preoperative hypnotics. The aim of the present study was the quantitative evaluation of the preoperative hypnotic effects of brotizolam and zopiclone by actigraphy. Forty patients received brotizolam 0.25 mg (group B) or zopiclone 7.5 mg (group Z) in randomized manner at 21:30 on the night before surgery. Sleep and awake was identified by wrist activity measured with a motion-logger actigraph. Sleep time was assessed in total period from 22:00 to 6:00 and its 4 subdivided 2-hour periods (22:00-24:00, 24:00-2:00, 2:00-4:00, 4:00-6:00). The total sleep time in group B (448 +/- 23 min) was significantly longer than that in group Z (416 +/- 43 min). Group Z showed a significant reduction in sleep time in period 4 (4:00-6:00), compared with other periods, whereas group B did not show any difference among 4 periods. In comparison of each period between 2 groups, group B showed significant longer sleep time in period 4. An actigraphic assessment of sleep time has demonstrated the quantitative difference of the effects of brotizolam and zopiclone as preoperative hypnotics.

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