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NCT Number: NCT02766257

Anesthesia for Ambulatory Pediatric Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)

Long surgical wait-times and limited hospital capacity are common obstacles to surgical care in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Ambulatory surgery might offer a solution to these problems. The aim is to study the introduction of ambulatory surgery in a pediatric hospital in SSA.

This is a cross-sectional descriptive study which took place over 6 months. It includes all the patients assigned to ambulatory surgery in the Pediatric University Hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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Key information

Conditions

Complications

Age range

1 year–15 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • ASA 1 status
  • elective surgery with low potential for blood loss or severe pain, lasting less than 90 minutes
  • whose parents could be contacted by telephone and who could return to the hospital in less than 1 hour
  • Parents gave consent for the surgical procedure

Exclusion criteria

  • non operative patients

Treatment and study plan

Anesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgery

Procedure

Primary outcomes

  1. Failure of ambulatory surgery

    Time frame: 1day

    number of patients that have been hospitalized (for whom ambulatory have been conversed to hospitalization)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Morbidity

    Time frame: 3 days

    Number of patients that presented complications of anesthesia or surgery such as nausea, vomiting, drowsiness and fever.

  2. Complication after discharge from hospital

    Time frame: 3 days

    number of phone calls from parents of patients after ambulatory discharge

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Anesthesia for Ambulatory Pediatric Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): a Pilot Study in Burkina Faso

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2014
First posted
May 9, 2016
Registry last updated
May 9, 2016

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