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Vital Sign Monitoring With Continuous Pulse Oximetry and Wireless Clinician Notification After Surgery

NCT02907255 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2512

Last updated 2020-01-28

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Summary

Patients are at risk of respiratory depression after having surgery. The medications that patients are treated with to control their pain can impair their breathing and this can progress to respiratory and cardiac arrest and even death. Vital signs assessment on surgical wards is usually done every 4 hours and this may be insufficient to identify and manage many cases of respiratory depression. The aim of this study is to determine the impact on safety and nursing workflow of a respiratory monitoring on two surgical wards by measuring safety outcomes. Respiratory depression is a serious complication of pain treatment that can lead to patient complications and death. The level of monitoring available in hospitals by nursing staff is insufficient to manage this problem. If this new monitoring technology works as designed then patient safety can be improved while maintaining effective pain therapy.

Conditions

  • Respiratory Depression

Interventions

DEVICE

Oximetry monitor

Wireless respiratory monitoring system

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • James E Paul, MD · Associate Clinical Professor, Research Chair & Director of Acute Pain Service

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2019-12-31
Completion
2019-12-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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