The Use of Ultrasound in Nasogastric Tube Placement in Children Admitted to the Pediatric ICU

Yale University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Nasogastric Tube

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound following X-ray

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04104295

2000026488

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if ultrasound (US), when used by the clinician, can determine the presence of nasogastric tube (NGT) in the stomach of patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Full description

Currently, the standard of care is to routinely obtain an X-ray (XR) after every nasogastric tube (NGT) placement in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). After obtaining informed consent and the child's assent, a short (less than 10 minutes) ultrasound (US) scan of the abdomen within 2 hours of the routine XR.

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• PICU patient undergoing routine NGT insertion by nursing staff

Exclusion criteria

• Any contraindication for US probe placement such as skin infection and abdominal wounds.
• Hemodynamically unstable patients.
• Patients for whom NGT placement will not be verified by XR, such as Ataxia Telangiectasia patients.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Ultrasound following X-ray

Experimental group

Description:

An ultrasound scan of the abdomen within 2 hours of the routine X-ray will be performed by a physician blinded to the X-ray results.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound following X-ray