Blind Gastric Tube Placement: Incidence of Malposition Confirmed by Ultrasonography

Completed

Conditions studied: Anesthesia

In brief

This is a prospective, single-arm cohort, observational study to determine the incidence of gastric tube malposition during blind insertion by an anesthesia provider.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03430908

Run by

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

People needed

166

Starts

2017-12-22

Expected to finish

2019-06-17

Last updated by the study team

2019-06-18

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The adult population, ages 18 and greater
• Patients undergoing general anesthesia with an endotracheal tube that will have a gastric tube blindly inserted by an anesthesia provider

You may not qualify if…

• Pediatric population (<18 years)
• Gastric tube inserted under direct visualizing (the use of a Mac or Miller laryngoscope or any video laryngoscope)
• Inability to visualize gastric tube by ultrasound due to body habitus, analogous anatomy, etc
• Pre-anesthesia insitu gastric tube
• Gastric tube inserted by practitioner other than a member of the anesthesia team

Where it is running

• Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States

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