PACU Stay After Lower Limb Revascularisation

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Perioperative, Enhanced Recovery

Treatments: Procedure: Acute vs elective

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02726412

PACU revascularisation 2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to describe the postoperative functions of patients with ischaemic lower extremities after undergoing revascularisation surgery . Primary endpoints will focus on complications in the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) which prevent discharge from PACU to the general ward. This include Aldrete scores and other complications that can be registrered descriptively. Furthermore, the study seeks to compare the complications outcomes between acute and elective revascularisation surgery.

Full description

As above

Enrollment: 156 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with symptoms of ischaemic lower extremities for instance intermittent claudication, resting leg pain, non-healing/gangrenouswounds and acute cold leg.
• Patients who underwent one or more of the following surgical procedure: PTA + TEA, TEA, bypass, thrombectomy, embolectomy, femoral-femoral crossover bypass, axillary-femoral bypass.

Exclusion criteria

• Only PTA intervention
• Only thrombolysis intervention