Clinical trials: Pediatric Surgical Procedures
Rare Diseases
Psychosocial Situation of Children With Rare (Congenital) Pediatric Surgical Diseases and Their Families
Families of children with rare diseases (i.e., not more than 5 out of 10.000 people are affected) are often highly burdened with fears, insecurities and concerns regarding the affected child and his/her siblings.
- Trial name
- NCT04382820
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 167 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Preoperative Anxiety Experienced by the Pediatric Patient, Dental Anxiety in Children
Evaluating Operation Calm With Children, Parents, and Clinicians
Operation Calm is a single-arm, mixed-methods feasibility study evaluating a virtual reality (VR) nature-based mindfulness intervention with children and adolescents aged 6-17 years, parents, and clinicians.
- Conditions
- Preoperative Anxiety Experienced by the Pediatric Patient, Dental Anxiety in Children, Procedural Anxiety
- Trial name
- NCT07694934
- Testing
- Operation Calm EEMCF-VR
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Appendicitis
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Pediatric Surgery
Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency in children. Non-perforated appendicitis patients do not require antibiotics after appendectomy.
- Trial name
- AbxPS (NCT02270996)
- Testing
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Alberta Children's Hospital
Pediatric Surgery, Informed Consent
Risk Sharing vs Risk Dumping: Parental Attitudes About Risks
This study will evaluate how parents or legal guardians perceive responsibility for surgical risk after the informed consent discussion for their child's operation, focusing on whether the process feels like "risk sharing" with…
- Conditions
- Pediatric Surgery, Informed Consent, Shared Decision-making, Parental Decision Making for Seriously Ill Children
- Trial name
- NCT07875712
- Testing
- Research data collection only
- Volunteers
- 150 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Child Preschool
Premedication by Clonidine Intranasal in Pediatric Surgery
There are few studies using intra nasal way to dispense premedication in pediatrics. This study will evaluate anxiolysis effect of Intranasal premedication with Clonidine vs Placebo.
- Trial name
- CLONIPREM (NCT03725930)
- Testing
- Clonidine
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Lille
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery in a Pediatric Population
Dex +/- Caffeine Sedation in a Post-MRI Recovery in a Pediatric Population
Dexmedetomidine (Dex), a selective α2-adrenergic receptor agonist, is the most used sedative for procedural sedation in children and in pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) because it is associated with less respiratory…
- Trial name
- NCT06538584
- Testing
- Caffeine citrate 15mg/kg, 0.9% Sodium Citrate
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
Airway Ultrasound Indices, Clinical Airway Assessment
Airway Ultrasound Indices for Prediction of Difficult Laryngoscopy in Pediatric Patients
The goal of this observational study is to compare the airway ultrasound indices and the preoperative clinical airway assessment concerning the difficult laryngoscopic view in paediatric patients undergoing elective surgery under…
- Trial name
- NCT07185516
- Testing
- Airway ultrasound indices, Clinical airway assessment
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 130 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
Complications of Surgical and Medical Care: General Terms
a New Way for Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair in Pediatric
laparoscopic hernia sac high-ligation has a high recurrence rate laparoscopic hernia sac high-ligation and the lateral umbilicus ligament covering the hernia opening The investigators developed a method of laparoscopic hernia…
- Trial name
- NCT01380067
- Volunteers
- 486 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Second People's Hospital of GuangDong Province
Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease
ENhanced Recovery in CHildren Undergoing Surgery
The institution of perioperative Enhanced Recovery Protocols (ERPs) has been found to decrease hospital length of stay, in-hospital costs, and complications among adult surgical populations but data in pediatric populations are…
- Conditions
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis
- Trial name
- ENRICH-US (NCT04060303)
- Testing
- Perioperative surgical care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 597 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University
Postoperative Delirium
Blood Sugar Level and Postoperative Agitations in Pediatric Surgery
The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of fasting time and blood glucose levels on postoperative agitations in pediatric patients who will undergo outpatient surgery.
- Trial name
- NCT04193280
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istanbul Medeniyet University
Health Care Utilization
Surgical Patient Education in Pediatric Urology
Randomized study to assess the impact of supplemental educational YouTube videos on postoperative healthcare utilization following ambulatory pediatric urologic surgery
- Trial name
- Uro Surg HL (NCT05597449)
- Testing
- YouTube videos on care after urologic surgery
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 400 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Seattle Children's Hospital
Postoperative Agitation, Emergence Agitation
Minimal- Versus High-Flow Sevoflurane and Emergence Agitation in Pediatric Surgery
This study aims to evaluate the effects of minimal-flow sevoflurane compared with high-flow sevoflurane during maintenance of general anesthesia on postoperative emergence agitation in opioid-free pediatric infraumbilical…
- Trial name
- NCT07635004
- Testing
- caudal block
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ankara City Hospital Bilkent
Insulin Resistance
Carbohydrate Loading in Lowering Perioperative Insulin Resistance in Pediatric Surgery
It is a double blinded randomized controlled trial interventional study, examining the effect of carb loading given prior to surgery on preventing post operative insulin resistance in pediatric patients undergoing elective surgery
- Trial name
- NCT07545538
- Testing
- Carbohydrate loading
- Where
- Indonesia
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Gadjah Mada University
Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome, TIS
Tools for the Objective Clinical Assessment of Pediatric Spinal Deformity
This project seeks to develop a standardized technique for simultaneous capturing bi-planar images of patients against a standard background with a grid that can be used later for the quantitative determination of global balance…
- Trial name
- NCT00585234
- Testing
- Digital Photography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Utah
Pediatric Surgery
The Effect Of Interactive Robot on Children's After The Surgery
This project will be conducted with 5-10-year-old children who will undergo an outpatient surgery in Trakya University Health Research and Application Center at Pediatric Surgery Clinic and their parents.
- Trial name
- NCT05185830
- Testing
- Interactive robots
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Trakya University
Anxiety, Fear
The Effect of Multisensory Stimulation Administered Before Clinical Encounters at the Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic on Children's Anxiety and Fear Levels and Parental Anxiety
Encounters with healthcare services during childhood, particularly surgical evaluation processes, are a significant source of stress for both children and their parents.
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Fear, Multisensory Stimulation, Pediatric Surgery
- Trial name
- NCT07769788
- Testing
- Multisensory Stimulation
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitesi
Pain Management
Family Experience of Home Opioid Use After Pediatric Surgery
A systematic review examining outpatient opioid use identified only three pediatric studies published between 2015 and 2016. Of these three, two studies had a short-term follow up with patients at three days after discharge…
- Trial name
- NCT03562013
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 89 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The Hospital for Sick Children
Obesity, Adolescent, Bariatric Surgery Candidate
Lifestyle Improvement for Teens With Bariatric Surgery
This study aims to conduct a proof-of-concept study to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a Metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) -supported healthy lifestyle behavioral intervention among adolescent…
- Trial name
- LIFT (NCT05393570)
- Testing
- Healthy Lifestyle Behavioral Intervention (MBS -supported intervention)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 76 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Preoperative Care, Anxiety
Use of Maltodextrins in the ERAS Preoperative Fasting Protocol in Pediatric Surgery
This monocentric prospective randomized controlled pilot study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of preoperative maltodextrin administration within an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol in pediatric surgical…
- Conditions
- Preoperative Care, Anxiety, Pediatric Surgery
- Trial name
- ERAS-MALTO (NCT07686029)
- Testing
- Maltodextrin Clear Liquid, Non-Sugared Clear Liquid
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Azienda Ospedaliera SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo di Alessandria
To Evaluate PSQ as Clinical Tool in the Decision Between Medical and Surgical Treatment for Adenotonsillar Hypertrophy, To Determine Clinical Response to Montelukast or Nasal Steroids Based on PSQ Results
Medical vs Surgical Treatment in OSA Among Children
Adeno-tonsillar hypertrophy causing OSA are treated surgically however, over the last years it has been shown that montelukast or nasal steroidal spray can significantly improve symptoms, adenoid size, and polysomnographic…
- Trial name
- NCT05651750
- Testing
- Montelukast, Fluticasone Furoate
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center