Status:

COMPLETED

APRICOT: Anaesthesia PRactice In Children Observational Trial

Lead Sponsor:

European Society of Anaesthesiology

Conditions:

Anaesthesia

Children

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 15 years

Brief Summary

The aims of the APRICOT study are: * To establish the incidence of severe critical events in children undergoing anesthesia in Europe. * To describe the differences in paediatric anaesthesia practice...

Detailed Description

Despite the introduction of better-structured programmes for paediatric anaesthesia training and the development of some recommendations for paediatric anaesthesia services, the incidence of severe cr...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age: from birth to 15 years included
  • All children admitted for an inpatient or outpatient procedure under general anaesthesia with or without regional analgesia or under regional anaesthesia alone. This includes all kind of surgeries and procedures requiring anaesthesia and analgesia to be performed such as central venous access, burn care, cast, etc.,
  • Children admitted for a diagnostic procedure under sedation (performed by an Anaesthetist) or general anaesthesia (such as endoscopy, radiology (CT-scan, MRI), cardiac catheterisation and electrophysiology, PET-scan, radiotherapy, lumbar and bone marrow puncture, biopsies), diagnostic procedure under general anaesthesia (such as endoscopy, radiology…)
  • Children admitted for urgent or emergency procedure performed in- or out-of-hours.

Exclusion

  • Children admitted directly from the intensive care units to the operating rooms
  • Anaesthesia procedures in the neonatal or paediatric intensive care units.
  • Age: All children aged ≥ 16 years.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2014

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

April 1 2015

Estimated Enrollment :

30000 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01878760

Start Date

March 1 2014

End Date

April 1 2015

Last Update

October 14 2015

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Medical University Graz

Graz, Austria, A-8034

2

Cliniques Universitaires St Luc

Brussels, Belgium, 1200

3

General Hospital Pula

Pula, Croatia, 52100

4

University Children´s Hospital

Brno, Czechia, 61300