Health Condition 1: 4- Measurement and Monitoring
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: NIL: NIL
Sponsors
Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Hospital
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
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
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To correlate the gastric volume and content with the fasting hours in a mixed population after variety of meals.Timepoint: baseline | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1)To determine the percentage of patients in paediatric population “at risk ? of aspiration even after adequate hours of starvation in both elective and emergency scenario. 2) To study and compare the difference in gastric volume in elective versus emergency surgery. 3) To see the effect of over fasting on gastric volume.Timepoint: at baseline level | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr Priyanshi Gupta
Lokmanya Tilak municipal medical college and general hospital
Outcome results
None listed