NCT06304493

REMINDers for Incentive Spirometry in PACU (REMIND-IS in PACU)

Postoperative Utilization of Incentive Spirometry With and Without Electronic Patient Reminders in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the frequency of use of incentive spirometry during the stay in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) increases with visual and auditory electronic reminders, as compared to not having those reminders.

Detailed description

This is a pragmatic single-center alternating cluster study. We will enroll adult patients who require general anesthesia for surgery and receive an incentive spirometry device during their PACU stay. Automatic alarms to perform incentive spirometry will be set to either "ON" or "OFF" in alternating weeks. The hypothesis is that patients receiving automatic audible and visual alarms will have increased rates of adequate incentive spirometry breaths compared to patients receiving no alarms.

Conditions

• Postoperative Atelectasis
• Postoperative Hypoxemia
• Postoperative Pneumonia
• Postoperative Pulmonary Complications
• Patient Adherence
• Incentive Spirometry
• Respiratory Therapy
• Respiratory Insufficiency

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Alarms	The "ON" cohort patients will receive audible and visual signals from the InSee monitor attached to their incentive spirometer every 20 minutes and upon successfully reaching certain achievements.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-25
• Primary completion: 2024-09-30
• Completion: 2024-10-03
• First posted: 2024-03-12
• Last updated: 2024-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study