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Assessing Gastric Motility and Distention in Postoperative Gastrointestinal Surgery Using Bedside Gastric Ultrasound: Predicting Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia, Ileus, Return of Bowel Function

Point-of-care gastric ultrasound will be used to measure stomach contents postoperative in patients who underwent colorectal surgery. Stomach volume and status (empty or full) will be compared retrospectively to the standard clinical criteria for diet advancement to determine if stomach volume via ultrasound is associated with successful diet advancement, nausea/vomiting, nasogastric tube replacement, length of stay, and other clinical outcomes. Clinicians performing clinical care will be blinded to the ultrasound exam results.

Start: February 2021

Air-test as a Predictor of Pulmonary and Systemic Complications After Laparoscopic Surgery

One of the main risk factors for the development of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC) in postsurgical patients is the persistence of atelectasis during this period. Therefore, it would be of great clinical interest to establish a causal relationship between postoperative atelectasis and the development of PPC, as well as having a relatively precise, simple and non-invasive method to rapidly diagnose these atelectasis. A prospective observational study will be carried out including all patients undergoing scheduled laparoscopic surgery, excluding pregnant women or women in the period of lactation, patients with moderate - severe acute respiratory distress syndrome, heart failure, need for mechanical ventilation during the 15 days prior to surgery or with a history of cardiothoracic surgery. Demographic variables (age, sex, weight, BMI), preoperative data (presence of allergies, cardiovascular risk factors, personal cardiopulmonary history, presence of toxic habits, baseline peripheral oxygen saturation, ASA classification, ARISCAT and frailty markers will be collected - Fried phenotype, scale clinical frailty and FRAIL scale -) and intraoperative (duration of the procedure, recruitment maneuvers). At 30 postoperative days the history will be reviewed clinic of the patients and the postoperative complications will be collected. Main objective: to demonstrate the veracity of the air-test in the prevention of pulmonary or other systemic complications in patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery. Secondary objectives: Measure the incidence of positive results in the air-test. Demonstrate the correlation between the performance of recruitment maneuvers and a negative score in the air-test Demonstrate the correlation between the degree of frailty of the patients and a positive score in the air-test.

Start: June 2021

Surgical and Oncologic Outcomes After Robotic Nipple Sparing Mastectomy and Immediate Reconstruction

Robotic mastectomy with immediate reconstruction was introduced by Toesca et al. in 2015. Since then, several studies have reported the safety and feasibility of robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction. However, most studies were conducted by single centers and had small samples. Furthermore, there is a lack of studies comparing surgical and oncologic outcomes between robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy and conventional nipple-sparing mastectomy. For this reason, this study evaluates surgical and oncologic outcomes of robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate reconstruction using international multi-center data.

Start: May 2020

SURgical Outcomes in COvid Patients - the SUROCO Multicenter Cohort Study (COVID-19)

Overall mortality of COVID-19 is variable and has been reported to be between less than 1% and 7%. Many authors around the world also reported data on hospitalization rate, need for intensive care unit (ICU) care and need for mechanical ventilation in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. To provide anesthetic and surgical care to SARS-CoV-2 infected patients, many health workers have to organize surgical platforms, personal protections and in-hospital trajectories to prevent dissemination and cross-contamination. However, no data has been published on the surgical need of these patients, their postoperative outcomes and the impact they may have on the operating room. Postoperative outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients are completely unknown. Expected benefits that justify a surgical procedure may be different in this population as well as the effects of preoperative characteristics on postoperative outcomes. The surgical needs of these patients, their postoperative outcomes as well as the associated workload imposed to operating rooms are unknown. There is a need to better quantify these and inform needed surgical resources in a pandemic. To address this knowledge gap, the investigators propose to conduct a multicenter observational cohort study in SARS-CoV-2 infected patients undergoing a surgical procedure.

Start: March 2020

Optimizing Physical Function Before Cancer Surgery in Older People at Risk

This randomized controlled trial is a multicentre study designed to explore the effects of preoperative exercise on physical fitness, postoperative complications, recovery, and health-related quality of life in older individuals at risk scheduled to undergo colorectal cancer surgery. The hypothesis is that older patients with low preoperative physical capacity will benefit from preoperative exercise in terms of lower risk for postoperative complications and improved recovery after surgery.

Start: May 2021

Perioperative Personalized Blood Pressure Management

The investigators propose a pilot trial to (1) proof the concept that defining the intraoperative mean arterial pressure (MAP) intervention threshold based on the mean nighttime MAP (assessed using preoperative automated blood pressure monitoring) results in clinically relevant (mean nighttime MAP ± 10 mmHg) different target values compared with using an absolute population-derived MAP intervention threshold of 65 mmHg (primary endpoint); (2) investigate if a personalized perioperative blood pressure management is feasibly in multi-center studies, especially if the target values can be sufficiently achieved (secondary endpoint); (3) study the impact of personalized perioperative blood pressure management on the incidence of myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery (MINS) (exploratory endpoint); (4) study the impact of personalized perioperative blood pressure management on the incidence of acute kidney injury within the first three postoperative days according to the KDIGO definition without oliguric criteria (exploratory endpoint).

Start: April 2021

Detection of Right Ventricular Dysfunction by Portal Vein Doppler After Cardiac Surgery

Right ventricular (RV) failure after cardiac surgery is associated with morbidity and mortality, but is hard to diagnose with conventional echocardiographic means. RV dysfunction may be associated with hepatic congestion, which may have an effect on portal veinous flow, but this has not been extensively. The investigators aimed determine whether an increased pulsatility in the portal venous flow was associated with RV dysfunction, after cardiac surgery at risk of RV dysfunction: mitral and tricuspid valve procedures.

Start: June 2021

Registry for the Improvement of Postoperative OutcomeS in Cardiac and Thoracic surgEry

The registry for the improvement of postoperative outcomes in cardiac and thoracic surgery aims to prospectively collect data in order to test the association between various preoperative and per-operative variables ; and several postoperative outcomes such as mortality, shock, redo surgery, sepsis and extracorporeal life-support.

Start: January 2012

EFFECT - EFFectiveness of ESPB (Erector Spinae Plane Block) in Laparoscopic C?lectomies Trial

The aim of the trial is to study the efficacy of continuous bilateral Erector Spinae Plane Block (ESPB) in managing perioperative pain in patients who undergo elective laparoscopic colectomy.

Start: January 2021

Comparison of Two FiO2 (1 or 0.5) for Tracheal Extubation in Post-anesthesia Care Unit

The purpose of the study is to assess the optimal fraction of inspired oxygen (0.5 or 1) for extubation or removal of a supraglottic airway device after general anesthesia.

Start: April 2021

Prospective, Observational, Real-world Oral Malignant Tumors Study

The aim of the study is to construct a register system of oral and maxillofacial malignant tumors based on a prospective, observational, real-world study in north Chinese population.

Start: March 2015

Postoperative Electrical Muscle Stimulation (POEMS)

Patients lose a significant amount of muscle following major abdominal surgery. This is partly due to a catabolic response to the surgical insult and inflammation, but is also probably due to a lack of muscle use secondary to immobility. This study will aim to assess whether some or even all of postoperative muscle loss in the upper leg muscle group is preventable through electrical muscle stimulation to mimic physical activity.

Start: November 2020

Studying How Outpatient Water affEcts Risks With Drains (SHOWER Study)

This is a prospective randomized, controlled, unblinded, interventional feasibility study to evaluate if showering with post operative drains in place leads to an increase in complications. The patients included in the study will be those undergoing breast reductions and panniculectomies at Geisinger Medical Center. The patients will be randomized post operatively into one of two groups: 1) patients instructed to shower with drains in place, and 2) patients instructed not to shower while they have drains in place.

Start: June 2021

Postoperative VR for Recovery After Bariatric Surgery

The objective of this study is to investigate whether the addition of immersive virtual reality (VR) in the immediate postoperative period to an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocol could improve postoperative recovery from bariatric surgery.

Start: June 2021

Sugammadex To IMprove Bowel Function

Colon and rectal surgery is associated with high cost, long length of stay, high postoperative surgical site infection rate, high incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting, and a high rate of hospital readmission. Return of bowel function is of utmost importance in avoiding patient discomfort, morbidity, and mortality after colorectal surgery. All patient having colorectal surgery receive neuromuscular paralysis, which is reversed at the end of surgery with either glycopyrrolate and neostigmine, or sugammadex. Glycopyrrolate and neostigmine both affect bowel function. Sugammadex has no effect on bowel function. The purpose of this study is to determine if a strategy of neuromuscular reversal with sugammadex, instead of glycopyrrolate and neostigmine, may increase gastric emptying after surgery and lead to less postoperative complications.

Start: March 2021

Intraoperative Phlebotomies and Bleeding in Liver Transplantation

Liver transplantation are surgeries associated with important bleeding and often require perioperative red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. Overall, between 20 and 85 % of liver transplant recipients receive at least one RBC transfusion during their surgery. Such transfusions are consistently associated with higher morbidity and mortality, although this causal association is still under debate in many surgical populations. Despite the lack of clear causative association between perioperative transfusions and worse outcomes, minimizing bleeding and transfusions is believed to improve postoperative outcomes. Many perioperative variables are associated with higher blood loss and need for perioperative transfusions: liver disease severity, preoperative anemia and coagulopathy, higher cardiac filling pressures and higher fluid administration, among others. However, few perioperative interventions have been shown to reduce bleeding and transfusion requirements in this population. Among them, the use of intraoperative phlebotomies to reduce portal and hepatic venous pressure during the dissection phase is a promising one, also described in liver resection surgery. To further investigate the effects of intraoperative phlebotomies on intraoperative bleeding, perioperative transfusions and mortality, the Principal Investigator will conduct a retrospective cohort study with a propensity score based causal analysis.

Start: March 2021

eCRANIO Trial Study on Elective CRAniotomies: Postoperative Neurointensive Care, Imaging and Outcome

Regarding the postoperative care strategies following elective craniotomy procedures there is little evidence. Many neurosurgical departments prefer these patients to remain intubated and sedated for many hours postoperatively to minimize hemodynamic and respiratory distress in fear of early postoperative complications such as rebleeding or seizures. In this prospective observational study the investigators aim to show that early tracheal extubation following elective brain surgery is feasible and safe.

Start: November 2011

Preoperative Intravenous Ferric Carboxymaltose and Placebo in the Treatment of Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

This study evaluates the efficacy and safety of single dose preoperative ferric carboxymaltose in the prevention of postoperative infections and blood transfusions in patients scheduled for cardiac surgery. Half of the patients will receive ferric carboxymaltose and half of the patients physiological saline solution as placebo.

Start: October 2018

Validation of the QoR-15 Score for Emergency Surgery

Recovery from surgery is a complex process, depending on the characteristics of the patient, the anesthesia used, and the time required for surgical management. In the context of emergency surgery, the perioperative period is associated with an increase in morbidity and mortality, which may lead us to suspect an alteration in the quality of recovery. Different scales to measure the quality of post-operative recovery have been developed. The QoR-40 and QoR-15 questionnaires assess recovery after elective surgery.These scoring tools accurately measure postoperative recovery by addressing key domains: pain, physical comfort, physical independence, psychological support and emotional state. Their use is recommended as an endpoint for assessing patient comfort in clinical trials, according to the Standardized Endpoints in Perioperative Medicine (StEP) initiative. In addition, monitoring of the QoR-15 is recommended by the American Society for Enhanced Recovery. A recent French translation of the QoR-15 score has been validated for use in scheduled surgery. All of these scores, regardless of the language in which they are translated, have been developed and validated in patients who have undergone scheduled surgery. Until now, no validated scoring tool has been available to assess recovery after emergency surgery, whether traumatological or not.

Start: June 2021

Evaluation of Hospital Readmission Rate Dependent on Post-Operative Follow-Up Procedure

This study is a randomized clinical trial among colorectal surgery patients that will compare the efficacy of two different discharge protocols - current standard of care follow-up at two weeks post-op versus a 3-day phone call intervention. The overall aim of the study is to identify areas of improvement for discharging and following patients within 30 days of colorectal surgery.

Start: June 2018