Prospective Evaluation of a RIsk Score for Postoperative Pulmonary COmPlications in Europe (PERISCOPE)

European Society of Anaesthesiology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Complication of Surgical Procedure; Surgical Complications From General Anesthesia; Pulmonary Failure; Acute Respiratory Failure, Adult; Postoperative Respiratory Complications

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01346709

PERISCOPE

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prospective Evaluation of a RIsk Score for postoperative pulmonary COmPlications in Europe (PERISCOPE) is a multi-centre, international observational study of a random-sample cohort of patients undergoing a nonobstetric in-hospital surgical procedure under general or regional anaesthesia during a continued 7-day period of recruitment.

Full description

Prospective Evaluation of a RIsk Score for postoperative pulmonary COmPlications in Europe (PERISCOPE) is a multi-centre, international observational study of a random-sample cohort of patients undergoing a nonobstetric in-hospital surgical procedure under general or regional anaesthesia during a continued 7-day period of recruitment.

Participating centres throughout Europe will contribute routine clinical data describing all eligible patients who undergo surgery during a continuous week (7-days) at convenience of every department within a period of two months from May 1st to July 1st 2011. A questionnaire of around 50 items will be filled during the pre, intra and postoperative periods. The follow-up will end at discharge. The aim of the PERISCOPE study is to validate a simple score to predict postoperative pulmonary complications(PPCs). This score has recently been published in Anesthesiology and you can access linking to: http://journals.lww.com/anesthesiology/Fulltext/2010/12000/Prediction_of_Postoperative_Pulmonary.20.aspx

TIMEFRAME Participants will be followed for the duration of in-hospital stay, an expected average of maximum 5 weeks.

Enrollment: 5,450 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients undergoing a non-obstetric in-hospital surgical procedure, elective or emergent, under general anaesthesia (alone or in combination with regional/neuraxial anaesthesia), neuraxial anaesthesia or plexus block (with and without sedation).

Exclusion criteria

1. age <18 years
2. obstetric procedures or any procedure during pregnancy
3. regional anaesthesia alone, except to neuroaxial and plexus anaesthesia
4. procedures outside the operating room
5. procedures related to a previous postoperative complication
6. transplantation
7. patients with preoperatively intubated trachea
8. outpatient procedures, defined as those requiring less than one day's stay for a patient alive at discharge.

Trial design

5,450 participants in 1 patient group

In-patient Adult Non-obstetricSurgical

Description:

Consecutive patients admitted to participating centres undergoing surgery Non-obstetric in-hospital surgical procedure, elective or emergent, under general anaesthesia (alone or in combination with regional/neuraxial anaesthesia), neuraxial anaesthesia or plexus block (with and without sedation). All eligible patients undergoing surgery within the seven day study period will be recruited wherever possible.