Telemedical Risk Assessment and Preoperative Evaluation (TAPE)

RWTH Aachen University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery With Anesthesia

Treatments: Device: TAPE-Software

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04518514

19-174

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, patient satisfaction and time saving of a telemedical risk assessment and preoperative evaluation for anesthesia.

Full description

The preanesthesia evaluation and risk assessment is conducted by an anesthesiologist prior to elective surgery. The physician assesses the patient´s medical records and specifies the individual preoperative procedure in order to minimize the perioperative risks. The on-site meeting is often connected with extended travel time and during the COVID-19 pandemic also with an increased infection risk for the patient. This project was initiated to reduce time efforts on patient site and to reduce possible infection risks. The TAPE-software turns every patients home into a remote facility allowing the physician to conduct the preanesthesia evaluation over distance.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ≥18 years
• estimated ASA I/II classification based on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification
• elective surgery
• surgery at least 14 days in the future
• patient access to a Windows-10-based personal computer with webcam

Exclusion criteria

• language or cognitive barriers (e.g. dementia, laryngectomy...)
• high risk surgeries with need of postoperative ICU stay
• acute infection with required auscultation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Preoperative evaluation and risk assessment via telemedicine

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: TAPE-Software