Anesthesia for Ambulatory Pediatric Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
- Conditions
- Complications
- Interventions
- Procedure: Anesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgery
- Registration Number
- NCT02766257
- Lead Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle
- Brief Summary
Long surgical wait-times and limited hospital capacity are common obstacles to surgical care in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Ambulatory surgery might offer a solution to these problems. The aim is to study the introduction of ambulatory surgery in a pediatric hospital in SSA.
This is a cross-sectional descriptive study which took place over 6 months. It includes all the patients assigned to ambulatory surgery in the Pediatric University Hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 103
- ASA 1 status
- elective surgery with low potential for blood loss or severe pain, lasting less than 90 minutes
- whose parents could be contacted by telephone and who could return to the hospital in less than 1 hour
- Parents gave consent for the surgical procedure
- non operative patients
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description children undergoing ambulatory surgery Anesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgery -
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Failure of ambulatory surgery 1day number of patients that have been hospitalized (for whom ambulatory have been conversed to hospitalization)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Morbidity 3 days Number of patients that presented complications of anesthesia or surgery such as nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and fever.
Complication after discharge from hospital 3 days number of phone calls from parents of patients after ambulatory discharge