Prospective Study of Non-operative Management of SBO Without Nasogastric Tube Placement
Withdrawn before enrolling · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Small Bowel Obstruction
In brief
A prospective randomized trial comparing non-operative management of small bowel obstruction due to adhesions with or without a naso-gastric tube (NGT).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02530086
- Run by
- Yale University
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2015-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-04-05
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-04-07
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All adult patients over 18 years of age who meet the following criteria will be recruited if identified:
- Admitted to a general surgery service with a presumptive diagnosis of adhesive SBO with or without a history of abdominal surgery. Have had no abdominal surgery in the 30 days prior to enrollment.
- Present from home or a long term care facility.
- CT scan of the abdomen performed within 36 hours of admission consistent with small bowel obstruction and without evidence the obstruction is due to an incarcerated hernia, malignancy or volvulus.
- Planned attempt at non-operative management by the attending surgeon.
- Have the capacity to provide informed consent for themselves.
You may not qualify if…
- Patient is deemed to need operative intervention at the time of presentation
- Pregnancy
- Contra-indication to NGT insertion
- Presence of a gastric feeding tube or dependent on tube feeding or parenteral nutrition on admission.
- Inability of the patient to protect their airway should emesis occur (as judged by the attending surgeon).
- Intractable emesis on admission.
- Abdominal surgery within 30 days prior to admission.
- Patients transferred from an inpatient status at another acute care hospital will be excluded.
Where it is running
- Yale New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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