Anaesthesia risks during airway endoscopy for children with a tracheostomy

Is this trial a fit for you?

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

This is an observational project at the Long-term Intensive Care Unit (LIVA) at Karolinska that follows children under 18 with tracheostomies who undergo elective surveillance airway endoscopy under general anesthesia. Investigators will record the incidence of severe anesthesia-related complications during these procedures and collect patient factors such as age at tracheostomy, age at endoscopy, ventilator dependence, and prior tracheostomy-related airway problems. Emergency airway procedures are excluded, and cases with concurrent major surgery will be included but omitted from postoperative symptom analyses. Data will be used to explore whether certain patient characteristics are associated with higher complication rates.

Why it matters

Who can join: the full rules

All patients:

under the age of 18 years with tracheostomy undergoing surveillance airway endoscopy approved for anesthesia

will be included within the time frame of the study (3 years). Patients may be included multiple times during the study period.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients will be excluded from the study if the airway endoscopy is a non-elective emergency procedure.

Patients undergoing concurrent major surgery during the same session will be included in the study but excluded from analysis of postoperative symptoms (secondary outcome measure). This is because postoperative well-being cannot be reliably attributed to the airway endoscopy alone when major surgery is performed simultaneously.

The same patient may be eligible for inclusion at multiple time points during the inclusion period if subject to subsequent airway endoscopies that meet the inclusion criteria.

Where it's running

• Pediatric Perioperative Medicine and Intensive Care
  Solna, Sweden Recruiting

Study contacts

• Study coordinator: Ida Engqvist, M.D
• Email: ida.engqvist@regionstockholm.se
• Phone: +46 (0) 768455333

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How to take part

1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
2. Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
3. Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.