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

Achilles Tendon Rupture Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04356612
• Other study ID #: 2019-1643
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: December 20, 2019
• Est. completion date: November 6, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Description:

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 1000
• Est. completion date: November 6, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: November 6, 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult patients (18 years and older) undergoing ambulatory foot and ankle surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• n/a

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Achilles Tendon Rupture
• Database
• Rupture

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Hospital for Special Surgery	New York	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time required for discharge	This is the length of time that patients stay in the recovery room	Day of surgery (Day 0) through discharge, average of 6 hours
Secondary	Supplemental Analgesics	This is the amount of pain medication patients require in the recovery room	Day of surgery (Day 0) through discharge, average of 6 hours