Quality of Handover to a Post Anaesthesia Care Unit in a Children's Hospital

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02114866

Enrollment

441

Registered

2014-04-15

Start date

2012-11-30

Completion date

2013-03-31

Last updated

2014-04-15

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Brief summary

Postoperative handovers to the post anaesthesia care unit (PACU) in adult anaesthesia are described as incomplete and unstructured, although their relevance for the patient safety is well known. It must be assumed that for children, this handover is at least comparable important. With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

No minimum to 17 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery

Exclusion criteria

* Age \> 18 years

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Quantity of Information Loss during Postoperative Handovers in the PACU	Three month

Outcome results