Non-Invasive O-Toluidine Monitoring during Regional Anaesthesia with Prilocaine and Detection of Accidental Intravenous Injection in an Animal Model

Regional anaesthesia is well established as a standard method in clinical practice. Currently, the local anaesthetics of amino-amide types such as prilocaine are frequently used. Despite routine use, complications due to overdose or accidental intravenous injection can arise. A non-invasive method that can indicate such complications early would be desirable. Breath gas analysis offers great potential for the non-invasive monitoring of drugs and their volatile metabolites. The physicochemical properties of o-toluidine, the main metabolite of prilocaine, allow its detection in breath gas. Within this study, we investigated whether o-toluidine can be monitored in exhaled breath during regional anaesthesia in an animal model, if correlations between o-toluidine and prilocaine blood levels exist and if accidental intravenous injections are detectable by o-toluidine breath monitoring. Continuous o-toluidine monitoring was possible during regional anaesthesia of the cervical plexus and during simulated accidental intravenous injection of prilocaine. The time course of exhaled o-toluidine concentrations considerably differed depending on the injection site. Intravenous injection led to an immediate increase in exhaled o-toluidine concentrations within 2 min, earlier peak and higher maximum concentrations, followed by a faster decay compared to regional anaesthesia. The strength of correlation of blood and breath parameters depended on the injection site. In conclusion, real time monitoring of o-toluidine in breath gas is possible by means of PTR-ToF-MS. Since simulated accidental intravenous injection led to an immediate increase in exhaled o-toluidine concentrations within 2 min and higher maximum concentrations, monitoring exhaled o-toluidine may potentially be applied for the non-invasive real-time detection of accidental intravenous injection of prilocaine.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Metabolites - 12(2022), 6 vom: 31. Mai

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Brock, Beate [VerfasserIn]
Fuchs, Patricia [VerfasserIn]
Kamysek, Svend [VerfasserIn]
Walther, Udo [VerfasserIn]
Traxler, Selina [VerfasserIn]
Pugliese, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Miekisch, Wolfram [VerfasserIn]
Schubert, Jochen K [VerfasserIn]
Trefz, Phillip [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Breath gas analysis
Drug monitoring
Journal Article
O-toluidine
PTR-ToF-MS
Prilocaine
Regional anaesthesia
Toxicology
Volatile organic compounds (VOC)

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Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/metabo12060502

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM342575716