NCT06329817

Incidence of Regurgitation in Patients Undergoing Intubation in Semi-fowler v/s Supine Position

Incidence of Regurgitation in Patients Undergoing Intubation in Semi-fowler v/s Supine Position in a Tertiary Care Hospital

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Pak Emirates Military Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

One of the most dreaded complication of general anaesthesia is aspiration of gastric contents after induction of general anaesthesia.Many endeavours and measures have been practiced to reduce the incidence of aspiration pneumonia.One such method is to intubate the patient in semi-fowler or supine posture.My study is aimed to find out safe and best position between these two after induction of general anaesthesia to prevent aspiration pneumonia.

Conditions

• Inguinal Hernia Bilateral

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Incidence of regurgitation in two different position.	Preventing aspiration pneumonia in general anaesthesia in two different position supine v/s semi - Fowler

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-03-16
• Primary completion: 2024-11-15
• Completion: 2025-09-01
• First posted: 2024-03-26
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan