Perioperative Complications and Myocardial Injury Risk in Arthoplasty Patients Suspected of Having Obstructive Sleep Apnea

NCT ID: NCT03281408

Last Updated: 2019-03-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-12-04
• Study Completion Date: 2018-10-12

Brief Summary

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common and under-diagnosed breathing disorder characterized by recurrent partial or complete collapse of the upper airway (tongue, soft palate) during sleep. It causes recurrent episodes of asphyxia (suffocation) resulting in fragmented sleep, low blood oxygen levels (hypoxemia), and high carbon dioxide concentrations. Untreated OSA is associated with serious heart/lung and metabolic diseases including strokes, diabetes, and heart attacks.

When a patient with OSA undergoes surgery, the symptoms of OSA are exacerbated afterwards due to the effects of anesthesia and related medications such as those used for pain control. This puts patients at higher risk for complications and necessitates nursing care and monitoring that are resource intensive. In many hospitals, patients with an OSA diagnosis are monitored after surgery in "high acuity" wards where the nurse to patient ratio is higher than usual. These high acuity/monitored beds are often in high demand, and their unavailability may sometimes mean cancellation of surgery or prolonged patient stay in the Post-operative Recovery Room, further causing operating room backlog.

Another serious issue is that many patients do not know they actually have the OSA condition. It is estimated that up to 20% (1) of people in the general public have OSA and that 75% (2) of them are not diagnosed. When someone with OSA goes for surgery without previously being diagnosed, special precautions in care and monitoring may not be in place, until a complication develops. For this reason, this population - those most susceptible to have OSA, but with no previous formal testing for the condition - is the most at risk for complications, and is the target group for this trial.

We plan to identify the study population by screening for OSA using the STOP-BANG questionnaire. Those who score high on this 8 item screening test have high likelihood of actually having OSA if they were to undergo formal testing and diagnosis in a Sleep Lab.

We will identify cardio-respiratory complications by conducting a chart review and determine whether admission to a "high acuity" bed had any impact. As OSA patients are at higher risk for cardiovascular complications at baseline and around the time of surgery, blood test for troponin will be performed on post-op day 1 and 2 to investigate the rate of myocardial injury. With the rate of MINS (myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery) reported to be 8% with almost 10% 30 day mortality (per VISION trial), this pilot project which focuses on arthroplasty patients with suspected OSA, will inform us of the arthroplasty surgery specific MINS risk for comparison.

Conditions

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Suspected OSA Patients Undergoing Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

These 100 subjects will be cared for and monitored in hospital following current hospital protocol. No change or intervention is to be administered. Troponin testing will be done post-op with other routine blood work.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients undergoing elective primary or revision knee/hip replacement surgery.

2. Patients with no previous OSA diagnosis (by polysomnography), who score >=5 on STOP-BANG OSA screening.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients without ability to communicate in English by reading or writing.

2. Patients with renal failure.

3. Patients on CPAP therapy.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 19 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of British Columbia

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Steven Lee

Clinical Assistant Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

UBC Hospital

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Peppard PE, Young T, Barnet JH, Palta M, Hagen EW, Hla KM. Increased prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing in adults. Am J Epidemiol. 2013 May 1;177(9):1006-14. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws342. Epub 2013 Apr 14.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 23589584 (View on PubMed)

Punjabi NM. The epidemiology of adult obstructive sleep apnea. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2008 Feb 15;5(2):136-43. doi: 10.1513/pats.200709-155MG.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 18250205 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

H17-01022

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id