Blind Gastric Tube Placement: Incidence of Malposition Confirmed by Ultrasonography

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anesthesia

Treatments: Other: Blind Gastric Tube Placement

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03430908

17-653

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective, single-arm cohort, observational study to determine the incidence of gastric tube malposition during blind insertion by an anesthesia provider.

Enrollment: 166 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The adult population, ages 18 and greater
• Patients undergoing general anesthesia with an endotracheal tube that will have a gastric tube blindly inserted by an anesthesia provider

Exclusion criteria

• Pediatric population (<18 years)
• Gastric tube inserted under direct visualizing (the use of a Mac or Miller laryngoscope or any video laryngoscope)
• Inability to visualize gastric tube by ultrasound due to body habitus, analogous anatomy, etc
• Pre-anesthesia insitu gastric tube
• Gastric tube inserted by practitioner other than a member of the anesthesia team

Trial design

166 participants in 1 patient group

Participants with an endotracheal tube

Description:

Participants undergoing general anesthesia with an endotracheal tube will have a gastric tube blindly inserted by an anesthesia provider.

Treatment:

Other: Blind Gastric Tube Placement