Clinical Trial

Oral Gastric Suctioning Effect on Transesophageal Echo

Recruiting
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Summary
During heart surgery images of the heart are taken with transesophageal echocardiography. The images track how the heart is doing during surgery. It is normal practice to place an oral gastric tube in the stomach during heart surgery. The oral gastric tube is used to suction out stomach contents to avoid potential aspiration and avoid stomach acid build up. The purpose of this research study is to see if the images of the heart have better quality after your stomach has been emptied. This project hopes to help determine the best method to obtain the better quality images of the heart during cardiac surgery.
Protocol Amendment History 1 amendment
This ClinicalTrials.gov record has been amended once since 2025-09-30.
Status change: Not Yet Recruiting → Recruiting 2025-10-24
Trial Details
NCT Number NCT07209293
Lead Sponsor Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Conditions TEE Image Quality
Enrollment 200 participants
Start Date 2025-10-22
Primary Completion 2026-10-30 (estimated)
Study Completion 2026-10-30 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov 2025-10-28