Hospital Discharge Following Bariatric Surgery by Telepresence Robot

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Severe Obesity

Treatments: Procedure: telepresence discharge; Other: Conventional discharge

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04203602

25656919.4.0000.5327

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the effectiveness and feasibility of performing the ward round using a telepresence robot vs. a face-to-face ward round to discharge patients after bariatric surgery.

Full description

This study is aimed to analyze the effectiveness and feasibility of performing the ward round using a telepresence robot (PadBot U, Inbot Technology Ltd, China), compared to the face-to-face ward round, for hospital discharge after bariatric surgery. Patients who underwent either laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy will be randomized to one of two groups: intervention group - who will be evaluated and discharged, on postoperative day (POD) 2, during ward rounds with the assistant team present, but the telepresent surgeon via robot; and control group - who will be evaluated and discharged, on POD 2, during ward rounds with the whole team physically present.

The study main hypothesis is that the ward rounds with the surgeon telepresent by a robot are not inferior to the face to face ward rounds, to evaluate and discharge patients after bariatric surgery.

Enrollment: 96 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients that underwent bariatric surgery (either laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass or laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

Exclusion criteria

• complications during surgery; unable to sign informed consent; admitted to ICU; previous foregut surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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96 participants in 2 patient groups

Telepresence round

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be seen during ward rounds by the multidisciplinary team physically present, but with the surgeon remotely present via a telepresence robot.

Treatment:

Procedure: telepresence discharge

conventional round

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients will be seen during ward rounds by the whole multidisciplinary team physically present, including the surgeon.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional discharge