Mechanical Ventilation in Surgical Patients

Summary

This is an investigator-initiated, international, multicenter, prospective, cross-sectional study that aims to 1) describe the incidence and types of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs), 2) describe patient demographics, baseline characteristics, and intraoperative ventilation management, 3) describe the occurrence of intraoperative adverse events (IAEs), and 4) their associations with PPCs, 5) assess the practice of intraoperative mechanical ventilation.

Patients will be eligible for participation if: 1) adult and 2) receiving intraoperative ventilation during general anesthesia for surgery. Patients receiving ventilation outside of an operating room as well as patients receiving intraoperative ventilation during extracorporeal life support will be excluded

Conditions

• Surgery
• Ventilator Lung
• Postoperative Complications

Interventions

OTHER

Intraoperative mechanical ventilation for surgery

Any IMV during general anesthesia for surgery

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Of Perugia

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Chieti

  collaborator OTHER

• Medical University of Vienna

  collaborator OTHER

• The Netherlands Cancer Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• Monash University

  collaborator OTHER

• Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Gianmaria Cammarota, Prof · Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

• Rachele Simonte, MD · University Of Perugia

• Edoardo M De Robertis, Prof · University Of Perugia

• Sabrine N.T. Hemmes, MD · Department of Anesthesiology The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Marcus J Schultz, Prof · Department of Anaesthesia, General Intensive Care & Pain Management, Medical University of Vienna

• Salvatore M Maggiore, Prof · Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Ospedale SS Annunziata & Department of Innovative Technologies in Medicine and Odonto-stomatology, Università Gabriele D'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy

• Ary Serpa Neto, Prof · Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC), School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-09-01

Primary Completion

2026-09-30

Completion

2027-03-01