Correlation of the Paediatric Tracheal Tube Size

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pediatric Tracheal Tube Size

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01838421

Paediatric tube size

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the context of the study a retrospective data collection of all anaesthesia protocols of children under the age of 12 which underwent surgery in the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow - Klinikum in the years 2011 and 2012 shall be executed. The correlation of the tracheal tube sizes with the weight, age and height shall be evaluated. This data collection should serve to reevaluate the already published formulas e.g. (Rettberg M. et al., 2011).

Enrollment: 3,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 11 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children under the age of 12 who underwent surgery in the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Charité Campus Virchow - Klinikum in the years 2011/12

Exclusion criteria

• No endotracheal tube inserted

Trial design

3,000 participants in 1 patient group

Children under 12 years of age

Description:

Children under 12 years of age who underwent surgery in the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Campus Virchow - Klinikum in the years 2011/12