Telemedicine Control Tower for the Operating Room: Navigating Information, Care and Safety — TECTONICS  

Surgery Clinical Trial

Official title: Telemedicine Control Tower for the Operating Room: Navigating Information, Care and Safety - Randomized Pragmatic Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Medical errors account for thousands of potentially preventable deaths each year. With the annual increase of surgical cases there is a need for research into the potential utility of a telemedicine-based control center for the operating room to assess risk, diagnose negative patient trajectories, implement evidence-based practices, and improve outcomes.

Clinical Trial Description

This will be a single center, randomized, controlled, phase 3 pragmatic clinical trial. Forty-eight operating rooms will be randomized daily to receive support from the ACT or not. All adults (eighteen years and older) undergoing surgical procedures in these operating rooms will be included and followed until 30-days after their surgery. Clinicians in operating rooms randomized to 'intervention' will receive decision support from clinicians in the ACT. In operating rooms not randomized to receive decision support from the ACT, the current standard of anesthesia care will be delivered. The intention-to-treat principle will be followed for all analyses. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Perioperative/Postoperative Complications
• Postoperative Complications
• Surgery
• Surgery--Complications

• NCT number: NCT03923699
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Washington University School of Medicine
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: July 1, 2019
• Completion date: January 31, 2023