Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring Versus Routine Spot-checks in Patients After Non-cardiac Surgery

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Vital Sign Monitoring, Post Operative Complications, Non-cardiac Surgery, RCT, Anesthesiology

In brief

The "COME ON, NOW!" trial is a randomized, single-center trial in patients recovering from non-cardiac surgery on normal wards investigating whether continuous vital sign monitoring - compared to routine spot-checks by nurses - reduces the total duration of abnormal vital signs per hour during the first 48 hours after admission to the normal ward.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07385092

Run by

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

People needed

264

Starts

2026-02-24

Expected to finish

2026-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-02

Who can join

Age: 45 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Consenting patients ≥45 years scheduled for elective non-cardiac (abdominal and thoracic) surgery with planned postoperative admission to a normal ward after an overnight stay in an advanced post-anesthesia care unit.

You may not qualify if…

• Emergency surgery
• Pregnancy
• Impossibility to perform continuous monitoring with the Radius VSM sensor (Masimo, Irvine, CA)
• Atrial fibrillation
• Patients designated Do Not Resuscitate, or are receiving end-of-life care

Where it is running

• University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf — Hamburg, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany (enrolling)

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