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SG GASTRIC VOLUME IN PEDIATRIC POPULATIO

Not Applicable
Conditions
Health Condition 1: 4- Measurement and Monitoring
Registration Number
CTRI/2023/05/052828
Lead Sponsor
okmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Hospital
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Open to Recruitment
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

All paediatric patients who present in elective and emergency operation theatres in all departments

such as orthopaedics, paediatric surgery, general surgery aged between 3 months to 18 years old.

Exclusion Criteria

1) Patients with a history of oesophageal or gastric surgery, upper gastrointestinal pathologies or

gastrointestinal disorders including gastro-oesophageal reflux, hiatal hernia, oesophageal stricture,

achalasia cardia, gastritis and intestinal obstruction) to be excluded.

2) Pediatric patients with a pre-existing orogastric or nasogastric tube

3) Patients who received opioids pre-operatively

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To correlate the gastric volume and content with the fasting hours in a mixed population after variety of meals.Timepoint: baseline
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1)To determine the percentage of patients in paediatric population at risk ? of aspiration even <br/ ><br>after adequate hours of starvation in both elective and emergency scenario. <br/ ><br>2) To study and compare the difference in gastric volume in elective versus emergency surgery. <br/ ><br>3) To see the effect of over fasting on gastric volume.Timepoint: at baseline level
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