Effects of Drinking at PACU Discharge After General Anaesthesia With Airway Control on Aspiration, Vomiting and Patients Comfort (I-DRINC)

Poitiers University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Scheduled General Anaesthesia With Airway Control

Treatments: Procedure: Early oral fluid recovery.; Procedure: Delayed oral fluid recovery.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02193737

I-DRINC

Details and patient eligibility

About

National guidelines about post-operative fasting after general anesthesia are missing.

Current clinical practices are highly variable and no study has ever evaluated on a large scale the real risk of an early drinks recovery in postoperative period.

The aim of this study is to state the impact of early drinks recovery after general anesthesia with laryngeal mask or endotracheal intubation on the risk of aspiration.

Enrollment: 1,555 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Scheduled surgery
• General anaesthesia with laryngeal mask or endotracheal intubation.
• Length of surgery < 4 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Emergency surgery
• Intra-cranial, cervical or Ear, Nose and Throat surgery
• Guts surgery with guts anastomosis.
• Glottic topical anesthesia
• Patient with nasogastric tube
• Aspiration during surgery or during PACU stay

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,555 participants in 2 patient groups

Early oral fluid recovery.

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Early oral fluid recovery.

Delayed oral fluid recovery.

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: Delayed oral fluid recovery.