Anesthesia for Ambulatory Pediatric Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle

Status: Completed

Conditions: Complications

Treatments: Procedure: Anesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgery

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02766257

A1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Long surgical wait-times and limited hospital capacity are common obstacles to surgical care in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Ambulatory surgery might offer a solution to these problems. The aim is to study the introduction of ambulatory surgery in a pediatric hospital in SSA.

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study which took place over 6 months. It includes all the patients assigned to ambulatory surgery in the Pediatric University Hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Enrollment: 103 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA 1 status
• elective surgery with low potential for blood loss or severe pain, lasting less than 90 minutes
• whose parents could be contacted by telephone and who could return to the hospital in less than 1 hour
• Parents gave consent for the surgical procedure

Exclusion criteria

• non operative patients

Trial design

103 participants in 1 patient group

children undergoing ambulatory surgery

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: Anesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgery