Fasting Time and Post-tonsillectomy Pain

Brittany Willer

Status: Begins enrollment this month

Conditions: Tonsillar Disorder

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07574476

STUDY00005766

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective, observational study to determine the association between preoperative fasting duration and post-tonsillectomy pain scores in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) among pediatric patients undergoing tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy and/or tympanostomy tube placement. The primary outcome is the post-tonsillectomy pain score, with the secondary outcomes as total postoperative opioid consumption, PACU length of stay, and hospital length of stay.

Enrollment: 350 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• undergoing elective tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy and/or tympanostomy tube placement

Exclusion criteria

• non-elective or urgent procedures
• inpatient admission prior to surgery; patients with any missing required data
• patients with conditions requiring deviation from standard anesthetic management (as determined by the anesthesiologist)