Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit

N/ACompletedNCT01973959

University of Witten/Herdecke790 enrolled

Overview

Anaesthesiology plays a key role in promoting safe perioperative care. This includes the perioperative phase in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) where problems with incomplete information transfer may have a negative impact on patient safety and can lead to patient harm. The objective of this study is to analyse information transfer during postoperative handovers in the PACU. With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

790

Conditions

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Age \< 18 years * patients who have surgery under local anaesthesia or in standby * patients who are transferred to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) after surgery

Locations (1)

Krankenhaus Köln-Merheim, Departement of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit

Overview

Conditions

Eligibility

Locations (1)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes