Peri-Operative Care Study: Frequently Asked Questions

Data Collection for study March 2010 to March 2011
Publication date: 9th December 2011

Are patients receiving anaesthesia for electro-convulsive therapy or cardioversions included?: If these are surgical inpatients with a planned overnight stay, and if they meet the rest of our inclusion/exclusion criteria, we are including them in the study.
Are patients included if they only have a local or regional anaesthetic, or nerve block?: If these are surgical inpatients with a planned overnight stay, and if they meet the rest of our inclusion/exclusion criteria, we are including them in the study.
Should locum anaesthetists complete the clinical forms?: Yes.
Are patients that go to a step-down area on a trolley included and 23 hour unit included?: We are including all inpatients who have a planned overnight stay (even if they went to a 23 hour unit, or stayed overnight for social/timing reasons, or are cases that go to a step-down area on a trolley).
How do you define day cases?: If the patients do not have a planned overnight stay, they are considered to be day cases. If the patient is admitted, with the operation having been delayed for a few days, then has the operation, and goes home immediately thereafter, we are considering that to be a day case. The inpatient stay needs to occur after surgery.
Is cardiothoracic surgery excluded from this study?: Cardiac surgery is excluded from this study, however thoracic surgery is included.
What time does the study period start and end?: Please include all patients whose anaesthetic commences just after midnight, going into the 1st and those whose anaesthetic commences by 23:59 on the March, 7th (and all those inbetween).
On the clinical questionnaire, question 13a, what measurement should we report creatinine in?: mmol/L
Does my hospital need to participate?: All hospitals who conduct inpatient surgery on patients aged 16 or over, will be asked to participate.
I would like to read the protocol - could you send me a copy?: Yes. Please click here to download a copy.

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