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

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pédiatrique Charles de Gaulle103 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

103

Conditions

Complications

Interventions

Anesthesia for ambulatory paediatric surgeryPROCEDURE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearMax age: 15 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Failure of ambulatory surgery

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

Time frame: 1day

Secondary Outcomes

Morbidity

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

Time frame: 3 days

Complication after discharge from hospital

number of phone calls from parents of patients after ambulatory discharge

Time frame: 3 days

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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