Feasibility and Safety of the Airway Exchange Broncholaryngoscope (AEBLScope)

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Conditions studied: Tracheotomy Patients, Airway Management, Airway Disease

In brief

This pilot study evaluates the safety and feasibility of a novel airway exchange broncholaryngoscope (AEBLScope) during routine tracheostomy tube exchanges in chronically tracheostomy-dependent adult outpatients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07033702

Run by

University of Southern California

People needed

10

Starts

2025-09-01

Expected to finish

2026-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-06-24

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Age ≥18 years
• Chronically (>1 month) tracheostomy-dependent outpatients
• Currently not requiring ventilatory or supplemental oxygen support
• Have undergone at least one prior tracheostomy tube exchange
• Scheduled for routine in-office tracheostomy tube exchange
• Able to provide informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Active respiratory infection
• Patients with airway tubes having an inner diameter less than 6.0 mm
• Patients with preexisting pulmonary conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), restrictive lung disease, untreated pneumonia, or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
• Patients who are tracheostomy-dependent but cannot be orotracheally intubated.
• Patients unable to provide informed consent and who have no legally authorized representative.

Where it is running

• Keck Hospital of USC — Los Angeles, California, United States
• Los Angeles General Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States

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