Sustainable Anaesthesia Practices in EUROPE - a Prospective International Cohort Study
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Anaesthesia technique.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Anaesthesia Conduction, Paediatric and Adult Patients, Carbon Footprint in Anesthetic. Basic parameters: No limits · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Sustainable Anaesthesia Practices in EUROPE
Overview
In response to the climate crises, Societies of Anaesthesiology around the globe call for action to reduce the carbon footprint of daily clinical work. They recommend the use of regional and total intravenous anaesthesia, and for inhalational anaesthesia cases, the use of sevoflurane with low fresh gas flow (FGF \< 0.5 lpm) settings. Surprisingly, the type of anaesthesia and ventilation settings commonly used remain largely unknown. This pragmatic observational cross-sectional assessment at all anaesthesia workstations in participating European hospitals in daily routine aims to evaluate anaesthesia practices in the paediatric and adult patient population.
Interventions
- Other Anaesthesia technique
Observation of type of anaesthesia used in Europe
Primary outcome measures
- Type of anaesthesia (inhalational and intravenous general anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, sedation, combinations, monitoring only) [Time frame: 5-60 min after the skin incision]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- All patients receiving any form of anaesthesia care-whether general or regional anaesthesia, monitored sedation, or monitoring only-from an anaesthetist at an anaesthesia workstation in participating European hospitals during the selected data-collection recruitment period
Exclusion criteria
- Patients (or legal guardians) who decline consent and patients for whom valid informed consent cannot be obtained due to language barriers or other factors preventing adequate information and understanding.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07252973 · CTN_SUSTAIN-EUROPE