Impact of use of an anesthesia preparation assistance application on pre-anesthesia assessment time for day surgery center patients; A randomized controlled study

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Recruiting

Conditions: Not Applicable

Registration Number: KCT0009269

Lead Sponsor: Korea University Anam Hospital

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 132

Inclusion Criteria

Adult patients aged 19 to 65 admitted to Korea University Anam Hospital's Day Surgery Center and scheduled for regular surgery under general anesthesia.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria include patients who have difficulty filling out a consent form due to mental retardation or difficulty reading Korean, vulnerable subjects (research participants who are vulnerable to coercion or undue influence, or those who lack decision-making ability; pregnant women, fetuses/newborns, minors, and those without decision-making ability) patients, students, employees, and those whose voluntary participation decisions are easily influenced by their surroundings), patients who have difficulty participating in research because they do not have a cell phone or are unable to use cell phone applications, and patients who have poor cognitive or language skills or have hearing or visual impairment. These cases include those with a medical disability, neurological or psychiatric disease, or other cases in which sufficient cooperation in research is not possible.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional Study

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Preanesthesia assessment interview time (seconds)

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of number of surgeries in which general anesthesia is postponed (%);Vital signs at the time of entering the operating room (median blood pressure, heart rate);Patient Anxiety Assessment (The Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale; APAIS);Patient satisfaction with pre-anesthesia evaluation (Visual analogue scale; VAS);Satisfaction of doctors in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine with pre-anesthesia evaluation