NCT02123238

Positioning of Surgical Patients With Sleep Apnea

Non-Supine Positioning in Treatment of Surgical Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Englewood Hospital and Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study aims to evaluate the effect of non-supine positioning in the treatment of surgical patients with obstructive sleep apnea. The hypothesis is that non-supine positioning will result in a decrease in acute hypoxic events, defined as the number of apneas/hypopneas per hour of sleep.

Detailed description

This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial that will comprise of two stages. Stage 1 is a pilot study of 30 patients at high risk or diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea who are scheduled for routine surgery. These patients will be randomized 1:1:1 to standard of care (0 degree bed angle), 30 degree bed angle, or 60 degree bed angle. Acute hypoxic events will be analyzed pre and post-op in the randomly assigned bed position. PACU nurses will also be surveyed for patient-favored non-supine positioning (30 vs. 60 degrees). Stage 2 will be a larger, powered trial to evaluate the efficacy of just one bed angle (30 or 60 degrees) based on the Stage 1 results.

Conditions

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	bed positioning

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-07-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2014-04-25
• Last updated: 2015-09-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States