Evaluation of Extubation Criteria in Children With Upper Respiratory Infection (URI)

Description

The investigators are currently completing a data collection to try to optimize pediatric patients' preoperative screening, in the setting of an upper respiratory infection.

Conditions

Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

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Study overview

The investigators are currently completing a data collection to try to optimize pediatric patients' preoperative screening, in the setting of an upper respiratory infection.

A Prospective Observational Study Evaluating Extubation Criteria in Children Less Than 8 Years of Age With Upper Respiratory Infection Undergoing Outpatient or Day Hospital Based Surgery

Evaluation of Extubation Criteria in Children With Upper Respiratory Infection (URI)

Condition
Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Winston-Salem

Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * All study participants must be undergoing general anesthesia and surgery with an endotracheal tube
  • * The URI group will be participants with a score of at least 3 on our pre-operative URI survey, with planned airway instrumentation with an endotracheal tube (ETT) for their surgical procedure who are to be discharged same day or on postoperative day 1.
  • * The non URI group will be participants undergoing elective procedures with no URI symptom or recent URI. Defined as no URI or "allergy" symptom within the past 6 weeks and a score of 1 or less on the URI survey, with planned airway instrumentation with an ETT for their surgical procedure who are to be discharged same day or on postoperative day 1.
  • * History of home oxygen use or ventilator dependence,
  • * Patients undergoing emergent procedures.
  • * Patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.
  • * Patients receiving a surgical procedure where the duration of post procedure
  • * admission is anticipated to be greater or equal to 2 postoperative days.
  • * Patients undergoing anesthesia for imaging procedures alone.
  • * Patients who are extubated deep intentionally.
  • * Patients intended to be managed with supraglottic airway.
  • * Patients undergoing total IV anaesthesia (TIVA).

Ages Eligible for Study

to 7 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Collaborators and Investigators

Wake Forest University Health Sciences,

Thomas Templeton, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Record Dates

2025-04