Tele-Anesthesia - Trans-Continental Anesthesia Compared to Standard Practice

Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Pisana

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Thyroid Gland Resection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01331096

Teleanesthesia3054

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients in Pisa will undergo thyroid gland surgery. In the protocol group anesthesia will be performed using an automated anesthesia delivery system; preoperative and intra-operative assessment of patients will be performed via video-conferencing from Montreal, which will also monitor and control anesthesia delivery via distant Internet connection - as supervision of functioning of the automated anesthesia delivery system. In the control group anesthesia will be performed in a standard fashion with manual control of the syringe pumps infusing anesthetics drugs.

The hypothesis is that Tele-anesthesia, considered as preoperative assessment and anesthetic control of an automated anesthesia delivery system is feasible and reliable via standard means of internet communication (distant control via virtual network) and performed as well or even better than manual control of the anesthetic drugs infusion.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective patients
• Patient scheduled for surgery under spinal anesthesia
• Patients aged 18 to 85 years

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to provide informed consent
• Comatose patients
• Patients with dementia
• Allergy to Propofol

Trial design

200 participants in 2 patient groups

Anesthetic drugs manually administrated

Automated anesthesia delivery system