Perioperative Factors Impacting Surgical Risk and Outcomes in Children

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Overview

This prospective study will measure various factors in children coming in for ambulatory surgery and attempt to create a scoring system that would be able to predict post-operative outcomes.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Conditions

Surgery Orthopedic Disorder

Interventions

SpirometryDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Lung volumes will be measured using spirometry.

Reaction TimeDIAGNOSTIC_TEST

PVT-192 Psychomotor Vigilance Task Monitor is a hand-held, self-contained system used for repetitive reaction time measurement.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 6 YearsMax age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Pediatric patients aged 6-18 years old having ambulatory orthopedic surgery with or without planned postoperative admission. * Patients need to be cooperative to under spirometry testing and reaction time measurement. If unable to perform, we will assess why they were not able (non-cooperative, inability, etc) Exclusion Criteria: * Spinal fusion

Locations (1)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) length of stay

The investigators hypothesize that spirometry performance will be associated with reduced PACU length of stay

Time frame: Immediately post-op

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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