The objective of this study is to assess if not requiring patients to spontaneous void prior to discharge from the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) will results in shorter lengths of stay in the post-anesthesia care unit without increasing hospital readmissions or emergency room visits.
This study will be a prospective clinical trial, in which 100 anorectal surgery patients will be randomly assigned to a control (spontaneous void) or experimental (no void group). The spontaneous void group will include 50 patients who will be required to void spontaneously after anorectal surgeries. The no void group will be 50 patients who will be discharged home from the PACU once they meet ambulatory surgery center discharge criteria per hospital guidelines. Patients requiring anorectal surgeries will be consented to take part in the study during the preoperative outpatient office visit. A post-operative phone call will be made by designated study personnel to participants on post-op day 30 using a study questionnaire to assess re-admission and emergency room visits.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
104
Currently the protocol at The Ohio State University Hospital requires voiding spontaneously prior to discharge from the PACU. Our intervention group will be discharged home without having to void spontaneously as a discharge criteria.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Columbus, Ohio, United States
PACU Time
This is the time patients in each arm spend in recovery. Measured as minutes elapsed between the end of surgery (surgery end time) and discharge from recovery room.
Time frame: This measure will be recorded through the study period.
30-day Readmission
Number of patients readmitted in the 30-days period after surgery
Time frame: 30 days
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