Gastric Ultrasound in Paediatric Anaesthesia (ECHOGASTRO)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: General Anesthesia

Treatments: Device: Gastric ultrasound

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02584348

2013.790

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anesthesia for emergency surgery is a situation at risk of pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents. It has been previously reported that bedside two-dimensional ultrasonography can be a useful tool for anesthesiologists to determine gastric contents and volume in adults and children.

In this prospective study, preoperative qualitative ultrasound assessment of gastric contents is performed for each children admitted for emergency surgery, in order to plane in case of empty stomach an intravenous or inhalation technique induction rather than an rapid sequence induction.

Enrollment: 146 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children aged from 0 to 18 years old
• Parental consent

Exclusion criteria

• Gastric tube contraindication
• Parental refusal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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146 participants in 1 patient group

Gastric Ultrasound

Experimental group

Description:

Preoperative qualitative ultrasound assessment of gastric contents will be performed

Treatment:

Device: Gastric ultrasound