Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers in the Post-anaesthesia Care Unit

University of Witten/Herdecke

Status: Completed

Conditions: Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01973959

108/2011 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anaesthesiology plays a key role in promoting safe perioperative care. This includes the perioperative phase in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) where problems with incomplete information transfer may have a negative impact on patient safety and can lead to patient harm. The objective of this study is to analyse information transfer during postoperative handovers in the PACU.

With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Enrollment: 790 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients transferred to the PACU after surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 years
• patients who have surgery under local anaesthesia or in standby
• patients who are transferred to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) after surgery