Pre-operative patient attitudes to anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Pre-operative patient attitudes to anaesthesia for orthopaedic surgery.
IRAS ID
214036
Contact name
David Hewson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Research and Innovation Department
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 1 days
Research summary
Research Summary:
Patients commonly undergo orthopaedic surgery using regional anaesthesia, when a part of the body is made numb with local anaesthetic by an anaesthetist. Surgery is then often performed with the patient awake rather than asleep with a general anaesthetic. Being awake for surgery makes many people anxious and worried. We want to ask patients who are due to have hip, knee or shoulder surgery about their attitudes and emotions to their operation and anaesthetic. We will ask these questions in the pre-operative assessment clinic, well before their surgery. This information will help us decide if there are changes we can make to the way anaesthetics are delivered for this kind of surgery to improve patient experience. Their responses will also help us design the methodology of future research into sedation during these types of surgery.
Summary of Results:
The results of this survey confirm that perioperative anxiety is a substantial issue for patients (in agreement with published literature on this topic in other surgical settings) and that many patients would be willing to try a patient-maintained propofol sedation (PMPS) system, were one available. The results of this survey supported further investigation of PMPS.
REC name
Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/YH/0052
Date of REC Opinion
14 Feb 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion