Correlation Between Duration of Fasting and Response to Fluid Replenishment, Evaluated With Repeated Measures of VTI.

Free University of Brussels (ULB)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Fluid Therapy; Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalance

Treatments: Other: Plasmalyte A Viaflo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03599973

ErasmeVTI2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will study the correlation between the lenght of the fasting before surgery and the need to replenish with intra-venous fluids in children, evaluated with 3 measures of the aortic Integral Time Velocity with transthoracic echocardiography.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged between 3 and 6 years with a normal ponderal evolution.
• Children with good general status (ASA 1)
• Children whose parents have given the informed authorization to do the study.
• Children seen in the consultation of anesthesiology.
• Children programed to have ambulatory surgery (Amygdalectomy, dental care, dental extraction).

Exclusion criteria

• Children with more than 6 years of age.
• Children whose parents didn't agree with the study.
• Children enrolled in another study on the 3 months before.
• Children with hearth or lung conditions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Patient

Other group

Description:

One-arm study, where all patients are given the same standard fluidotherapy and anesthetic conditions to compare measures of Aortic VTI before and after the IV fluid.

Treatment:

Other: Plasmalyte A Viaflo