Anticipation of the Difficult Airway: the Preoperative Airway Assessment Form

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Conditions studied: Endotracheal Intubation Risk Assessment

In brief

The purpose of this study is to see if our experimental preoperative airway assessment form is a better indicator of difficult airway as compared to the anesthesia record that is presently used.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01037374

Run by

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

People needed

89

Starts

2008-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-09-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• CA-1, CA-2, and CA-3 anesthesiology residents starting from July 2008-July 2010

You may not qualify if…

• the same anesthesiology residents who are working with patients 17 and younger, patients who are already intubated, and patients undergoing emergent surgery.

Where it is running

• Memorial Hermann Hospital, Medical Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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