Postoperative Management of Patients Undergoing Head and Neck Microvascular Free Flap Reconstructive Surgery: is Admission to an Intensive Care Unit Necessary?

ConditionsReconstructive Surgery Head and Neck Microvascular Free Flap

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

AgeNot listed

SponsorFondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia

About this trial

The aim of our study is to assess if patients undergoing head and neck free flap reconstructive surgery admitted to the ICU have equivalent postoperative outcomes to those admitted to an Otolaryngology specialty ward

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

patients undergoing Head and Neck oncological demolitive surgery and reconstruction using free or pedicled flaps at the Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia

Disqualifiers

patients treated for Head and Neck cancer without flap reconstruction (e.g., only chemotherapy-radiotherapy, only radiotherapy, only immunotherapy).

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

free flap surgery

Treatment groups

192 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov