Incidence of Regurgitation in Patients Undergoing Intubation in Semi-fowler v/s Supine Position

Pak Emirates Military Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Inguinal Hernia Bilateral

Treatments: Procedure: Incidence of regurgitation in two different position.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06329817

A/28/ER/532/23

Details and patient eligibility

About

One of the most dreaded complication of general anaesthesia is aspiration of gastric contents after induction of general anaesthesia.Many endeavours and measures have been practiced to reduce the incidence of aspiration pneumonia.One such method is to intubate the patient in semi-fowler or supine posture.My study is aimed to find out safe and best position between these two after induction of general anaesthesia to prevent aspiration pneumonia.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adults 18-60 years of age
• Must be able to talk

Exclusion criteria

• patients less than 18 years of age or above 60,
• Pregnant women
• Handicapped individuals
• patients with intestinal obstruction

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Supine position

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Incidence of regurgitation in two different position.

Semi- fowler position

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Incidence of regurgitation in two different position.