Evaluation of Extubation Criteria in Children With Upper Respiratory Infection (URI)

Completed

Conditions studied: Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

In brief

The investigators are currently completing a data collection to try to optimize pediatric patients' preoperative screening, in the setting of an upper respiratory infection.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT04155892
Run by: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
People needed: 760
Starts: 2019-12-04
Expected to finish: 2025-07-03
Last updated by the study team: 2026-01-16

Who can join

Age: any, up to 7. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

All study participants must be undergoing general anesthesia and surgery with an endotracheal tube
The URI group will be participants with a score of at least 3 on our pre-operative URI survey, with planned airway instrumentation with an endotracheal tube (ETT) for their surgical procedure who are to be discharged same day or on postoperative day 1.
The non URI group will be participants undergoing elective procedures with no URI symptom or recent URI. Defined as no URI or "allergy" symptom within the past 6 weeks and a score of 1 or less on the URI survey, with planned airway instrumentation with an ETT for their surgical procedure who are to be discharged same day or on postoperative day 1.

You may not qualify if…

History of home oxygen use or ventilator dependence,
Patients undergoing emergent procedures.
Patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.
Patients receiving a surgical procedure where the duration of post procedure
admission is anticipated to be greater or equal to 2 postoperative days.
Patients undergoing anesthesia for imaging procedures alone.
Patients who are extubated deep intentionally.
Patients intended to be managed with supraglottic airway.
Patients undergoing total IV anaesthesia (TIVA).

Where it is running

Wake Forest University Health Sciences — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

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