The Use of Ultrasound in Nasogastric Tube Placement in Children Admitted to the Pediatric ICU

Nasogastric Tube Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Use of Ultrasound to Determine Correct Nasogastric Tube Placement in Children Admitted to the Pediatric ICU: a Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04104295
• Other study ID #: 2000026488
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 24, 2020
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2021

Study information

• Verified date: April 2021
• Source: Yale University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if ultrasound (US), when used by the clinician, can determine the presence of nasogastric tube (NGT) in the stomach of patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Description:

Currently, the standard of care is to routinely obtain an X-ray (XR) after every nasogastric tube (NGT) placement in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). After obtaining informed consent and the child's assent, a short (less than 10 minutes) ultrasound (US) scan of the abdomen within 2 hours of the routine XR.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2021
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• PICU patient undergoing routine NGT insertion by nursing staff

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any contraindication for US probe placement such as skin infection and abdominal wounds.

• Hemodynamically unstable patients.

• Patients for whom NGT placement will not be verified by XR, such as Ataxia Telangiectasia patients.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nasogastric Tube

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Ultrasound following X-ray
A short (less than 10 minutes) ultrasound (US) scan of the abdomen within 2 hours of the routine X-ray (XR). The performer will be a physician who received a focused training on relevant US views, blinded to the XR image and report.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Yale University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Correct placement of NG tube	The operational definition will be the number of correct identification of NG tube position using ultrasound, as compared to the official X-ray read.	Up to 10 minutes