Airway Deadspace in Children: Air-Q Versus Endotracheal Tube

Completed

Conditions studied: Airway Deadspace

In brief

The objective of this study will be to measure the airway deadspace associated with use of appropriately sized an AirQ, a commonly used supraglottic airway in young children weighing between 5 and 20 kg and compare that to the airway deadspace associated with use of an endotracheal tube (ETT) in similarly sized children undergoing controlled ventilation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03785977

Run by

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

People needed

62

Starts

2019-03-25

Expected to finish

2019-08-09

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-27

Who can join

Age: 0 and older, up to 6. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients between the ages of 3 months and 6 years of age weighing between 5 and 20 kg
• Patient presenting outpatient urologic or general surgery

You may not qualify if…

• History of difficult airway/intubation
• Patients suspected to have a difficult airway.
• Morbid obesity BMI >39
• Emergency status of surgery
• Patients exposed to second hand smoke
• Patients with Asthma
• Patients with a URI symptom such as nasal drainage, cough, or fever within 7 days of the date of surgery
• History of Prematurity

Where it is running

• Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

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