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NCT Number: NCT00776880

Does American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status Scale Enough in Patients Assessment

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status scale has been used worldwide for assessing the status of patients before operation. However, merely the value of ASA scale did not give enough information of patients to determine their prognosis and improvement of outcomes. Since 1948, World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as the state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Therefore, the investigators hypothesized that the ASA scale only was needed to be modified and should be replaced by a comprehensive gauge to evaluate the status of patients in depth. Based on this thought, the investigators used a new system, i.e., physical-psycho-social (PPS) scale, to assess the overall state before surgical procedures.

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Key information

Conditions

Elective Surgery

Age range

18 year–65 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Nanjing Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital

Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210004, China

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients undergoing elective surgical operation
  • Age from 18-65 years

Exclusion criteria

  • Age < 18 years or > 65 years
  • Not willing to participate in this study
  • Patients from emergency department

Treatment and study plan

ASA scale

Other

ASA scale evaluation before operation

PPS scale

Other

PPS scale evaluation before operation

Primary outcomes

  1. Time of recovery

    Time frame: Six months after operation.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Intraoperative consumption of drugs

    Time frame: 1 day after operation

  2. Incidence of side events

    Time frame: 72 hours after operation

  3. Hospitalization days

    Time frame: From 0 min after operation to the time duration of discharge home, this measure would be varied in different patients

  4. Psychological state

    Time frame: Six months after operation

  5. Life quality

    Time frame: Six months after operation

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Nanjing Medical University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Reevaluating the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Physical Status System in Patients Assessment and Compared With a New Scale of Physical-psycho-social Gauge Raised by Our Institution

Acronym: ASAINPA

Important dates

Study start
2009
Primary completion
2009
Study completion
2009
First posted
Oct 21, 2008
Registry last updated
Dec 23, 2009

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