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Establishing Gastric Sonography in a Swiss Teaching Hospital

NCT04738006 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2003

Last updated 2022-03-31

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Summary

Preoperative gastric sonography may provide a validated, reliable, fast, and cost-efficient approach to assess aspiration risks in both elective and emergency patients. Practiced sonographers are able to perform point-of-care gastric sonography in a few minutes, thus severe delay in daily clinical practice should not be expected. Nevertheless, how this highly sensitive and specific tool should be best established in daily clinical practice is still unclear. There are no preexisting structured and validated trainings for this specific point-of-care ultrasound application. To address these issues, all patients with increased aspiration risk at the Institute of Anaesthesiology in Winterthur will be evaluated for participation during a one year recruiting period. Participants will receive a preoperative gastric ultrasound by a trained professional.

The aim of this investigation is to validate our structural training and proof the importance and effectiveness of this diagnostic tool to lay ground for improvement of anesthesiologic management and presumably patient safety in patients with an increased risk of a pulmonary aspiration.

Conditions

  • Gastric Ultrasound

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kantonsspital Winterthur KSW

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-01-18
Primary Completion
2021-12-31
Completion
2021-12-31

Countries

  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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