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

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Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States, 10021