NCT02114866

Quality of Handover to a Post Anaesthesia Care Unit in a Children's Hospital

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 441 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Witten/Herdecke · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Postoperative handovers to the post anaesthesia care unit (PACU) in adult anaesthesia are described as incomplete and unstructured, although their relevance for the patient safety is well known. It must be assumed that for children, this handover is at least comparable important. With a self-developed checklist information transfer during postoperative handovers will be documented and subsequently compared with patient information in anaesthesia records.

Conditions

• Information Transfer During Postoperative Handovers

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2013-03-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2014-04-15
• Last updated: 2014-04-15