Status:

UNKNOWN

Impact of Premedication on Anxiety

Lead Sponsor:

RWTH Aachen University

Conditions:

Preoperative Anxiety

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

IMPACT aims to evaluate the clinical routine practice of premedication in German hospitals and to estimate the influence of premedication on anxiety reduction.

Detailed Description

Generalised premedication with benzodiazepines in all surgical patients has become questionable, regarding the risk-benefit assessment and the lack of evidence for this practice. One of the main justi...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Only legally competent patients
  • Written informed consent prior to study participation
  • Age ≥18 years, both genders
  • Elective surgery
  • Expected surgery duration ≥ 30 minutes
  • Planned general or combined regional and general anaesthesia
  • Planned extubation (or removal of airway device) at the end of surgery

Exclusion

  • Age \<18 years
  • Non-fluency in German language
  • Alcohol and/ or drug abuse
  • Chronic benzodiazepine treatment
  • Intracranial surgery
  • Local or solely regional anaesthesia
  • Monitored anaesthesia care/ Sedation
  • Cardiac surgery
  • Ambulatory surgery
  • Repeated surgery with previous participation in the trial
  • Expected continuous mandatory ventilation after surgery
  • Patients with severe neurological or psychiatric disorders
  • Refusal of study participation by the patient

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 7 2019

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

September 30 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

4000 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04103723

Start Date

October 7 2019

End Date

September 30 2021

Last Update

October 12 2020

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University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 52074