Barriers to Efficient PACU Discharge at a Major Academic Orthopaedic Ambulatory Surgery Center

• Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York (Other)
• Overall Status: Active, not recruiting
• CT.gov ID: NCT04356612
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 1,000
• Location: 1
• Anticipated Duration (Months): 36
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 27.8

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Center

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Achilles Tendon Rupture; Database	Other: Chart Review

Detailed Description

Increasing number of surgeries are now performed at ambulatory surgical centers including orthopaedic procedures. While healthier patients usually undergo non-major orthopaedic procedures using regional anesthesia to facilitate faster discharges, prolonged PACU discharges are frequently encountered necessitating characterization and identification of modifiable variables. This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Center.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Anticipated Enrollment: 1000 participants
• Observational Model: Cohort
• Time Perspective: Retrospective
• Official Title: Barriers to Efficient PACU Discharge at a Major Academic Orthopaedic Ambulatory Surgery Center
• Actual Study Start Date: Dec 20, 2019
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Dec 20, 2022
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Dec 20, 2022

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Achilles Tendon Rupture This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgical Center.	Other: Chart Review; This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgical Center.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Time required for discharge [Day of surgery (Day 0) through discharge, average of 6 hours]

   This is the length of time that patients stay in the recovery room

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Supplemental Analgesics [Day of surgery (Day 0) through discharge, average of 6 hours]

   This is the amount of pain medication patients require in the recovery room

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (18 years and older) undergoing ambulatory foot and ankle surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• n/a

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Hospital for Special Surgery	New York	New York	United States	10021

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Sang Kim, MD, Hospital for Special Surgey

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04356612
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2019-1643
• First Posted: Apr 22, 2020
• Last Update Posted: Apr 11, 2022
• Last Verified: Apr 1, 2022

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Rupture

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Apr 11, 2022