Clinical trials: Pediatric Surgical Procedures, open to volunteers
Surgical Blood Loss, Surgical Hemorrhage
TEG Use in Children Undergoing Procedures With High Anticipated Blood Loss
The research team proposes a prospective, observational study to better understand how TEG can be useful in guiding clinical practice in the Main OR for subject's undergoing high transfusion risk surgeries.
- Conditions
- Surgical Blood Loss, Surgical Hemorrhage, Post Operative Hemorrhage
- Trial name
- NCT05379530
- Testing
- Thromboelastography (TEG), Anesthesia Provider Survey
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Boston Children's Hospital
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
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
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
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
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
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
COVID-19
COVID Infection in Pediatric Surgical Patient
Children infected with COVID-19 are mostly asymptomatic. There is a dearth of data on the epidemiology of COVID-19 in the pediatric population. This is a prospective observational clinical study of pediatric surgical patients.
- Trial name
- NCT05898529
- Testing
- Rapid antigen test
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Salem Anaesthesia Pain Clinic
Pain
Evaluation of Post-PACU Pain Management in Pediatric Surgery
This study aims to assess the differences in overall pain severity, pain management, and satisfaction during recovery period between two groups of children who either receive or do not receive additional education related to…
- Trial name
- NCT02352116
- Testing
- Additional face-to-face education, Standard of care management
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 900 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Anxiety, Anxiety After Surgery
The Study Evaluates the Effect of an Interactive Projector as a Distraction for Children During Anesthetic Induction. The Primary Objective is to Reduce Perioperative Anxiety, Measured With the Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS).
This study is designed to evaluate the effect of technology as a distraction technique during anesthetic induction in children, starting from their arrival to the operating room.
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Anxiety After Surgery, Induction of Anesthesia, Anxiety Preoperative
- Trial name
- NCT07230743
- Testing
- Custom projector-based video game intervention (BERT; Stanford Chariot Program, Palo Alto, CA), Standard Parent-Present Induction (PPI)
- Where
- Chile
- Volunteers
- 70 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Clinica Alemana de Santiago
Tracheostomy Complication, Emergency Front of Neck Airway in Children
Neck Rescue Access Comparison
Emergency front-of-neck access (eFONA) represents the final lifesaving intervention in a pediatric "can't intubate, can't oxygenate" scenario.
- Conditions
- Tracheostomy Complication, Emergency Front of Neck Airway in Children, Anesthesia
- Trial name
- eFONA (NCT07368179)
- Testing
- Percutaneous Seldinger-Guided Tracheal Access (Melker), scalpel-bougie tracheostomy
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury
Extradural Hematoma in Pediatrics After Acute Head Injury: Surgical and Clinical Outcome
Acute extradural hematoma (EDH) is a potentially life-threatening neurosurgical emergency in children, commonly resulting from traumatic head injury.
- Trial name
- NCT07696598
- Testing
- evacuation of hematoma
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sohag University