To find the proportion of elderly patients undergoing lower limb orthopedic surgeries developing post-operative delirium and to test the use of a novel risk assessment tool for predicting delirium.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/04/065364
- Lead Sponsor
- Believers Church Medical College Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients aged above 60 years undergoing elective orthopaedic lower limb surgeries
ASA(PS)1-3
Duration of surgery less than 240 minutes or 4 hours
Exclusion Criteria
Emergency procedures
Pre-existing dementia, delirium or disorders of consciousness or any neurological disorders which prevent adequate cognitive testing and delirium assessment.
Post-operative requirement of ICU or HDU care/ ventilatory support/ any form of sedation.
Language barriers
Had undergone surgery in the past 3 months.
Patient refusal to participate.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method