Pilot Study for Verifying Endotracheal Tube Repositioning Using Ultrasound

Stopped early

Conditions studied: Endotracheal Tube Position

In brief

The investigators will compare the response to oral endotracheal tube repositioning as measured by chest x-ray and measured by the air-wave device.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02407158

Run by

Yale University

People needed

12

Starts

2015-05-01

Expected to finish

2018-01-05

Last updated by the study team

2018-01-11

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Intubated patients in the SICU requiring ETT repositioning will be identified by SICU clinicians.

You may not qualify if…

• Based on manufacturer restrictions, patients with ETTs smaller than 6.5mm and larger than 9mm, double lumen ETTs, and those patients receiving Heliox therapy will be excluded from this study.

Where it is running

• Yale New Haven Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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