NCT06620549

Feasibility of Nurse-performed Gastric Ultrasound After Surgery

Feasibility of Nurse-performed Gastric Point-of-care Ultrasound to Determine Gastric Content After Gastro-intestinal and Oncologic Surgery: a Pilot Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 135 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Radboud University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Gastric ultrasound is a quick and non-invasive tool to evaluate gastric content. Emptying of gastric content can be affected after abdominal surgery leading to the inability of tolerating oral foods. Gastric content can be assessed by gastric ultrasound and nurses were recently trained to do so in healthy volunteers; however, feasibility of nurse-performed gastric ultrasound after major abdominal surgery is not investigated yet. This study aims to investigate the feasibility of nurse-performed gastric point-of-care ultrasound after major gastro-intestinal surgery.

Conditions

• Point-of-care-ultrasound
• Gastric Ultrasonography
• Gastric Ultrasound
• Gastro Intestinal Surgery
• Nursing
• Abdominal Surgeries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	gastric ultrasonograppy	Patients will be scanned in both supine and right lateral decubitus position (RLD)s. If the antrum is visible, it will be judged if the antrum is empty in both positions or the antrum is empty in supine position and fluid apparent in RLD position suggesting a low fluid volume (\<1,5 ml/Kg). The third option is fluid apparent in both supine and RLD position, suggesting a higher fluid volume (\>1,5ml/Kg) and the last option is solid food in one or both positions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-22
• Primary completion: 2024-11-16
• Completion: 2024-12-24
• First posted: 2024-10-01
• Last updated: 2024-10-01

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Netherlands