Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Effect of ice-lollies on the recovery time after anaesthesia: protocol for a cluster-randomised trial (Icesthesia)
Study context
- Population
- Patients admitted to the post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) of a large university medical centre after anaesthesiaplanned
- Participants
- 3,140 patients
- Planned comparison
- Ice-lollies plus standard of care vs standard of care only in the PACU
- Primary endpoint
- Time spent in the PACU until decision to discharge
Methodological detailsprospective, monocentric, single-blinded, superiority, Days randomised (clusters); anonymised patient data collected, Secondary outcomes: pain medication consumption, nausea and vomiting, postoperative delirium at discharge
- Prospective
- Monocentric
- Single-blinded
- Superiority
- Days randomised (clusters); anonymised patient data collected
- Secondary outcomes: pain medication consumption, nausea and vomiting, postoperative delirium at discharge
No results yet. This paper sets out the design of a trial; its results are to come.
Original publication
Effect of ice-lollies on the recovery time after anaesthesia: protocol for a cluster-randomised trial (Icesthesia). Perioper Med (Lond). Published 19 March 2026. doi:10.
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