Life Cycle Assessment of General Anesthetic, Regional Anesthetic and the Combination of General Anesthetic and Regional Anesthetic: a Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 30
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- Carbon dioxide emission
研究概览
简要总结
Following Ethics approval, all adult patients undergoing surgery to fix the wrist fracture will be approached and consent to undergo this study. The amount of waste generated from general anesthetic, regional anesthetic and regional+general anesthetic will be collected and weighed.
Patients undergoing this type of wrist surgery have only regional anesthetic, or general anesthetic, or both ie. regional anesthetic and general anesthetic.
The aim of the study is to compare the amount of waste generated from each type of anesthetic and this will give us a better idea of which anesthetic is more environmentally sustainable.
详细描述
Following Ethics approval, all adult patients undergoing surgery to fix the wrist fracture will be approached and consent to undergo this study. The amount of waste generated from general anesthetic, regional anesthetic and regional+general anesthetic will be collected and weighed. Waste will include disposable and reusable wastes. Examples of disposable waste are all plastic packaging, syringes, needles, breathing tube, breathing circuits, gloves as well as drugs. Examples of reusable waste will be anesthetic face mask, laryngeal mask (which is a form of airway device that can be reprocessed), sterile gowns. The amount of anesthetic gas used will be obtained from the anesthetic machine.
Patients undergoing this type of wrist surgery have only regional anesthetic (freezing performed higher up in the arm to numb the whole arm for several hours), or general anesthetic (patient completely goes to deep anesthetic sleep), or both ie. regional anesthetic (freezing just for pain control afterwards) and general anesthetic (patient goes to deep anesthetic sleep after the freezing is done and they may need less pain killer during the surgery as well as afterwards).
The amount of waste generated will be compared amongst these 3 groups by life cycle analysis.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 19 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •All adult patients undergoing open reduction and internal fixation of wrist
排除标准
- •no contraindications for general anesthetic in the group for general anesthetic and vice versa
研究组 & 干预措施
Regional anesthetic
Patients only have nerve block with or without sedation
干预措施: Regional anesthetic (Other)
General anesthetic
Patients only have general anesthetic
干预措施: General anesthetic (Other)
Combined general anesthetic and regional anesthetic
Patients have both general anesthetic and regional anesthetic together
干预措施: Combined general anesthetic and regional anesthetic (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Carbon dioxide emission
时间窗: During surgical intervention
Amount of carbon dioxide emission
次要结局
- Duration of surgery(During surgical intervention)
- Generation of solid waste(During surgical intervention)