NCT02516943

The Effects of Using Pathological- Based Guidelines for Arterial Blood Gas Analysis in Patients Aftercardiac Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mahidol University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Blood gas analysis were routinely monitor every 4 hours in our surgical cardiac intensive care unit (SICU). These luxury investigations waste the resources. Therefore we develop a pathological- based guideline for arterial blood gas analysis in patients after cardiac surgery. We test the guideline for its safety and efficacy.

Conditions

• Blood Gas Analysis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Control	The patient's ABGs were test according to a 4 - hour routine
OTHER	Guideline	The patient's ABGs were test according to the guideline for requests Arterial Blood Gas status post cardiac surgery

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-05-01
• First posted: 2015-08-06
• Last updated: 2015-12-11