The pain medication given after major surgery may cause some patients to stop breathing for periods of time especially at night time. An oxygen monitor may reflect this abnormal breathing pattern. This is an observational study of 100 post-operative patients who will be monitored with a pulse oximeter for a minimum of two nights and a maximum of five nights to determine the prevalence of this abnormal breathing pattern.
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Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
No intervention
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Texas Health Research & Education Institute
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Number of General Care Floor Patients Exhibiting a Saturation Pattern Detection (SPD) Alert.
Number of patients on the General care Floor in which a SPD (Saturation Pattern Detection) Alert occurs. Each patient wore a sensor on their finger continuously after surgery for up to 5 days. The sensor was attached to a Nellcor N600X oximeter which measures blood oxygen level. A SPD alert detects a patient's blood oxygen level that is increasing and decreasing in a pattern that is associated with periods of no breathing.
Time frame: 5 days
Number of Participants With Adverse Events (AE) Caused by no Breathing
Number of participants with Airway Obstruction that caused the patient to stop breathing Number of participants with Cardiac arrest w/resuscitation caused by the patient not breathing
Time frame: Five Nights
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