Comparison of Telemedicine Evaluation to Standard Evaluation Methods for Pre-Anesthesia Consultation

Loma Linda University (LLU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: ENT Patients Scheduled for Surgery

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01240239

59305

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to evaluate different methods of pre-anesthesia consultation, with the aim of improving the day of surgery experience for the patient. In this study, we will use a telephone consultation, an in-person consultation, and a telemedicine consultation, which involves television cameras and monitors that allow live two-way communication for the pre-anesthesia consultation. The reason for this study is to evaluate the use of telemedicine for the pre-anesthesia consultation. Patients and anesthesiologists have been highly satisfied in previous studies using pre-anesthesia telemedicine consultation. In this study, we will examine a larger group of patients, as previous studies have studied smaller groups of patients.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients between the ages of 18 and 89 who are scheduled for otolaryngologic procedures and pre-anesthesia consultation.

Exclusion criteria

Lack of consent; inability to understand English-

Trial design

200 participants in 3 patient groups

telephone group

Description:

The telephone group must be healthy adults scheduled for an ENT surgery.

telemedicine group

Description:

This group if qualified will randomly be chosen to be in the telemedicine group.

pre-anesthesia consultation

Description:

This will be the group that will be randomized to the pre-anesthesia clinic.