Video-laryngoscope With a Novel Video-stylet for Difficult Intubation
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Conditions studied: Difficult Endotracheal Intubation
In brief
We propose to enroll 140 subjects scheduled for elective or urgent/emergent surgery with general anesthesia including endotracheal intubation. Patients qualify for the trial if they are considered a difficult airway case as determined by measurement of common predictive indices for difficult intubation (see inclusion criteria). All patients will be intubated with a GVL. Patients will be randomly assigned to either having their ETT placed with use of a pre-formed stylet provided by the manufacturer of the GVL (control group) or with a flexible, disposable tracheoscope (aScope, Ambu, Denmark) (intervention group). The randomization will be stratified as to whether patients are categorized as predicted difficult airway or have an immobilized cervical spine (C-collar in place).
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01215695
- Run by
- University of Louisville
- People needed
- 140
- Starts
- 2010-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-09-08
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- BMI > 35
- Thyromental distance < 6 cm
- Sterno-mental distance < 12 cm
- Mallampati grade 3 and 4
- Interincisor distance < 38 mm
- Status of dentition: presence of buckteeth
- Neck movement < 35°
- Neck circumference >43 cm at the level of the thyroid cartilage
- Patients with immobilized cervical spine (C-collar in place).
- History of difficult laryngoscopy or intubation
You may not qualify if…
- Full stomach
- Hiatal hernia
- Severe GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease)
- Tumors of the upper airway
Where it is running
- University of Louisville Hospital — Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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