Comparison of the Video and Macintosh Laryngoscope in Patients Who May be Difficult to Intubate

Completed · Phase 4

Conditions studied: Intubation, Endotracheal

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine if the Video Laryngoscope (VL) is a useful instrument in patients at risk for difficult intubation. We will compare this device to the traditional Macintosh Laryngoscope.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00178555

Run by

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

People needed

200

Starts

2003-08-01

Expected to finish

2007-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-03-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18-80
• ASA I-III
• Presenting for elective surgery
• Requires general anesthesia
• Present as a possible difficult intubation (one or more of the following)
• history of difficult intubations
• morbid obesity
• small mouth opening (<3 fingerbreadths)
• limited neck mobility
• Mallampati classes II-III
• short thyromental distance (<6 cm)

You may not qualify if…

• Determined to be easily intubated (none of the factors listed above)
• Considered so difficult (i.e. Mallampati IV) that an awake intubation should be performed
• ASA IV and V

Where it is running

• Memorial Hermann Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States

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