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Preoperative Ultrasonographic Assessment of Gastric Volume and Fasting Hours

Not Applicable
Conditions
Health Condition 1: 4- Measurement and Monitoring
Registration Number
CTRI/2020/03/024005
Lead Sponsor
Dr Sunil N Bodamwad
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ot Yet Recruiting
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
0
Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients aged between 18 and 80 years posted for elective surgery who will be fasted for more than 6 hours for solids and more than 2 hours for clear fluids but not more than 16 hours will be identified in the ward.

2. Such patients giving consent for performing preoperative gastric ultrasound will be included in our study.

Exclusion Criteria

1.Pregnant women.

2.Patients with unreliable or unclear fasting history (e.g. language barrier, cognitive dysfunction, altered sensorium)

3.Patients with oesophageal or stomach pathology like achalasia cardia, hiatus hernia, CA oesophagus, CA stomach.

4.Patients who have undergone gastrectomy, gastric bypass surgery.

5.Patients who are unable to turn or lie down in lateral position.

6.Patients on drugs such as prokinetics which alter gastric motility or gastric emptying times.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
1. To preoperatively examine the gastric contents and volume in fasting patients prior to elective surgery by determining the cross sectional area(CSA) of antrum by using bedside ultrasound. <br/ ><br>2. To determine the correlation between hours of preoperative fasting and gastric contents and volume. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 2 Years
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
ot ApplicableTimepoint: Not Applicable
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