Blind Gastric Tube Placement: Incidence of Malposition Confirmed by Ultrasonography
Completed
- Conditions
- Anesthesia
- Interventions
- Other: Blind Gastric Tube Placement
- Registration Number
- NCT03430908
- Lead Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- 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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 166
Inclusion Criteria
- 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
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Exclusion Criteria
- 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
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Participants with an endotracheal tube Blind Gastric Tube Placement Participants undergoing general anesthesia with an endotracheal tube will have a gastric tube blindly inserted by an anesthesia provider.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence of malposition of blindly placed gastric tubes by anesthesia providers Day of procedure
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States