Association Between NEWS2 Scores at PACU Discharge and Unplanned ICU Admission

On the Validity of Scoring Upon Leaving the Operating Theatre - PACU-NEWS2

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000060959

Enrollment

12000

Registered

2026-03-17

Start date

2024-09-02

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Postoperative patients managed in the PACU after general anesthesia

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients aged 18 years or older who underwent surgery under general anesthesia at our institution and were admitted to the PACU postoperatively will be included.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients scheduled for ICU admission preoperatively or intraoperatively Patients with missing data required for the primary outcome or main explanatory variables Cesarean section cases Tracheostomy cases Other cases judged inappropriate for inclusion by the principal investigator

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Occurrence of unplanned ICU admission	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Distribution of NEWS2 scores upon discharge from the PACU; association between individual NEWS2 components and unplanned ICU admission; length of stay in the PACU; requests for rapid in-hospital response (to be set as required); association with postoperative adverse events (to be set as required)	—

Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactYuri Aoki

The Jikei University Department of Anesthesiology

yu_ur11.5bt@jikei.ac.jp04-7164-1111

Outcome results