To compare nasal temperature at two different sites with the food pipe temperature
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- patients posted for elective surgery
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/05/014129
- Lead Sponsor
- Kasturba Medical College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 65
Inclusion Criteria
1. ASA PS I and II
Exclusion Criteria
1.History of nasal surgery/nasal trauma
2.Evidence of nasal deformity
3.Epistaxis
4.Surgery requiring prone position
5.History of oesophageal disorders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the temperature measured by nasopharyngeal temperature probes inserted by landmark method and fibrescope guided method with esophageal temperatureTimepoint: After fifteen minutes of passing the temperature probe and the temperatures were noted at serial intervals of fifteen minutes up to 105 minutes or until end of surgery
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method differences in depth of insertion of nasopharyngeal temperature probe by two methodTimepoint: fifteen minutes after the start of surgery