PACU Discharge Readiness

Development of Assessment Tools for Determining Outpatient Subjects' Home-Readiness After Receiving Anesthesia (Without Family or Friend to Drive Them Home)

The use of custom-created apps, neuropsychological testing, and clinical assessments will be evaluated as tools for determining the appropriateness of PACU discharge to home.

Study Overview

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Conditions: Baseline; Patient Discharge; Neurocognition
• Intervention / Treatment: Diagnostic test: custom-created apps, neuropsychological testing, and clinical assessments

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Estimated): 1000
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

• Study Contact: Name: Alexandra Barabanova; Phone Number: 312-355-5377; Email: barabano@uic.edu

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
      • University of Illinois Chicago

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• The individuals will be identified from the operating room (OR) schedule and approached in the pre-operative area (or earlier, when possible).
• Adult patients (18 years or older) listed for surgery and a planned 23-hour admission will be eligible for enrollment in this study.
• Subjects must be fluent in English and not have confounding sensory or neurological limitations to participation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Members of vulnerable populations or adults unable to consent will be included in this study.
• Subjects that do not speak English
• Subjects with neurological limirations

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Neuro Assessment Group	Diagnostic test: custom-created apps, neuropsychological testing, and clinical assessments; This study's interventions will include a brief neuropsychological assessment, including pre-operative baseline and post-operative repeat assessment. Additional assessments of memory and coordination using two custom apps and standard clinical assessments will also be conducted at each timepoint

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Standardized neuropsychiatric testing WAIS SCWT SPWT TOPJ	comparison of results to baseline measurements of these four validated neuropsychiatric assessments	24 hours

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Memory App	Use of a colored sequence presentation memory app to assess subjects return to baseline	24 hours
Flight Path App	Seated subject follows the flight path of a bird on an iPad app. Comparisons made to baseline performance.	24 hours

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Estimated): May 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2031
• Study Completion (Estimated): April 1, 2032

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 20, 2026
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 8, 2026
• First Posted (Actual): May 14, 2026

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 14, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 8, 2026
• Last Verified: May 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2025-1331

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: UNDECIDED

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No