Status:
COMPLETED
Blind Gastric Tube Placement: Incidence of Malposition Confirmed by Ultrasonography
Lead Sponsor:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Conditions:
Anesthesia
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Brief Summary
This is a prospective, single-arm cohort, observational study to determine the incidence of gastric tube malposition during blind insertion by an anesthesia provider.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- The adult population, ages 18 and greater
- Patients undergoing general anesthesia with an endotracheal tube that will have a gastric tube blindly inserted by an anesthesia provider
Exclusion
- Pediatric population (\<18 years)
- Gastric tube inserted under direct visualizing (the use of a Mac or Miller laryngoscope or any video laryngoscope)
- Inability to visualize gastric tube by ultrasound due to body habitus, analogous anatomy, etc
- Pre-anesthesia insitu gastric tube
- Gastric tube inserted by practitioner other than a member of the anesthesia team
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 22 2017
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 17 2019
Estimated Enrollment :
166 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03430908
Start Date
December 22 2017
End Date
June 17 2019
Last Update
June 18 2019
Active Locations (1)
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Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States, 10021