CompletedNot Applicable

Prospective Evaluation of a RIsk Score for Postoperative Pulmonary COmPlications in Europe

Albania, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina5,450 participantsStarted 2011-05

Plain-language summary

Prospective Evaluation of a RIsk Score for postoperative pulmonary COmPlications in Europe (PERISCOPE) is a multi-centre, international observational study of a random-sample cohort of patients undergoing a nonobstetric in-hospital surgical procedure under general or regional anaesthesia during a continued 7-day period of recruitment.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Exclusion criteria

✕. age \<18 years
✕. obstetric procedures or any procedure during pregnancy
✕. regional anaesthesia alone, except to neuroaxial and plexus anaesthesia
✕. procedures outside the operating room
✕. procedures related to a previous postoperative complication
✕. transplantation
✕. patients with preoperatively intubated trachea
✕. outpatient procedures, defined as those requiring less than one day's stay for a patient alive at discharge.

What they're measuring

The Main Outcome, Defined as a Postoperative Pulmonary Complications (PPC), Will be a Composite of the In-hospital Fatal or Non-fatal Postoperative Events.

Timeframe: Postoperative in-hospital stay up to 5 weeks

Trial details

NCT IDNCT01346709

SponsorEuropean Society of Anaesthesiology

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2011-08

Results submitted2015-10-13

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