Feasibility of Nurse-performed Gastric Ultrasound After Surgery (SKILLS-2)

Radboud University Medical Center

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Abdominal Surgeries; Gastric Ultrasonography; Point-of-care-ultrasound; Gastric Ultrasound; Nursing; Gastro Intestinal Surgery

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: gastric ultrasonograppy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06620549

2024-17217

Details and patient eligibility

About

Gastric ultrasound is a quick and non-invasive tool to evaluate gastric content.

Emptying of gastric content can be affected after abdominal surgery leading to the inability of tolerating oral foods. Gastric content can be assessed by gastric ultrasound and nurses were recently trained to do so in healthy volunteers; however, feasibility of nurse-performed gastric ultrasound after major abdominal surgery is not investigated yet.

This study aims to investigate the feasibility of nurse-performed gastric point-of-care ultrasound after major gastro-intestinal surgery.

Enrollment: 135 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patients (>18 years)

• Underwent gastrointestinal surgery:

  • partial liver resection,
  • colorectal resection,
  • HIPEC,
  • pancreatic procedures including Whipple procedures for pancreatic cancer or pancreatic disorders,
  • other gastro- intestinal abdominal procedures such as resections of sarcomas, correction of herniation.

• Obtained written informed consent.

• Admitted for at least 3 days.

Exclusion criteria

• patients with open abdominal wounds or with abdominal pain hindering adequate gastric ultrasound
• patients with a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy catheter

Trial design

135 participants in 1 patient group

Patients after gastro-intestinal surgery

Description:

Postoperative patients after gastro-intestinal surgery (e.g. liver, pancreatic, colorectal or hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) surgery)

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: gastric ultrasonograppy