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Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring Versus Routine Spot-checks in Patients After Non-cardiac Surgery

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorUniversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Started2026-02-24
Est. completion2026-11-01
Eligibility
Age45 Years+
Healthy vol.Accepted

Summary

The "COME ON, NOW!" trial is a randomized, single-center trial in patients recovering from non-cardiac surgery on normal wards investigating whether continuous vital sign monitoring - compared to routine spot-checks by nurses - reduces the total duration of abnormal vital signs per hour during the first 48 hours after admission to the normal ward.

Eligibility

Age: 45 Years+Healthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

Consenting patients ≥45 years scheduled for elective non-cardiac (abdominal and thoracic) surgery with planned postoperative admission to a normal ward after an overnight stay in an advanced post-anesthesia care unit.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Emergency surgery
* Pregnancy
* Impossibility to perform continuous monitoring with the Radius VSM sensor (Masimo, Irvine, CA)
* Atrial fibrillation
* Patients designated Do Not Resuscitate, or are receiving end-of-life care

Conditions6

AnesthesiologyHeart DiseaseNon-cardiac SurgeryPost Operative ComplicationsRCTVital Sign Monitoring

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