Comparing the ease of nasogastric tube placement with or without lifting trachea using a cold nasogastric tube in anaesthetized, intubated adult patients.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2024/06/069364
- Lead Sponsor
- I
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1.Patients with ASA physical status grade I to IV aged above 18 years.
2.Patients Scheduled to undergo elective surgery under general anaesthesia with endotracheal intubation and need a nasogastric tube as a usual course of management.
3.A patient whose trachea is intubated under chemical paralysis, needing a nasogastric tube placement.
1.Presence of nasal mass, nasal stenosis
2.History of corrosive poisoning
3.Uncontrolled bleeding diathesis
4.Recent radiotherapy to head and neck
5.Presence of cleft lip or palate
6.Significant deviated nasal septum
7.Esophageal stricture and varices
8.Base of skull fracture
9.A patient who will not require X-ray in their usual course of management.
10.Pregnant and lactating mother.
11.Patients not willing to participate in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To determine the first attempt success rate of nasogastric intubation using cold NGT with Reverse Sellick’s manoeuvre(3) with positive whoosh test (auscultation while injecting air)Timepoint: At Baseline, at 5 minutes
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To determine the overall success rate of nasogastric intubation using cold NGT with Reverse Sellick’s manoeuvre(3) by radiological confirmation with plain X-ray (showing the tube-tip below T12) [time 24 hours]’Timepoint: To determine the overall success rate of nasogastric intubation using cold NGT with Reverse Sellick’s manoeuvre(3) by radiological confirmation with plain X-ray (showing the tube-tip below T12) [time 24 hours]’