Barriers to Efficient PACU Discharge at a Major Academic Orthopaedic Ambulatory Surgery Center

N/AActive Not RecruitingNCT04356612

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York1,000 enrolled

Overview

This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Center

Increasing number of surgeries are now performed at ambulatory surgical centers including orthopaedic procedures. While healthier patients usually undergo non-major orthopaedic procedures using regional anesthesia to facilitate faster discharges, prolonged PACU discharges are frequently encountered necessitating characterization and identification of modifiable variables. This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Center.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

1,000

Conditions

Achilles Tendon Rupture Database

Interventions

Chart ReviewOTHER

This is a retrospective chart review to determine the etiologies contributing to prolonged PACU discharge at a major Orthopedic Ambulatory Surgical Center.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patients (18 years and older) undergoing ambulatory foot and ankle surgery Exclusion Criteria: * n/a

Locations (1)

Hospital for Special Surgery

New York, New York, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Time required for discharge

This is the length of time that patients stay in the recovery room

Time frame: Day of surgery (Day 0) through discharge, average of 6 hours

Secondary Outcomes

Supplemental Analgesics

This is the amount of pain medication patients require in the recovery room

Time frame: Day of surgery (Day 0) through discharge, average of 6 hours

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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