Airway management in paediatric patients.

Phase 3

Conditions: Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical

Registration Number: CTRI/2022/07/043728

Lead Sponsor: Dr S N Medical College Jodhpur

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: ot Yet Recruiting

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

Patients with American Society of Anaesthesiology Physical status I or II of either sex, aged between 1 year and 4 years and weight between 7 kg to 20 kg with Mallampatti grade (MPG) Class 1 and class 2 and undergoing elective surgeries under general anaesthesia in supine position will be included in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

1) Refusal of parental consent.

2) Patients undergoing emergency surgery.

3) Patients with increased risk of aspiration.

4) Patients with abnormal or distorted anatomy of the pharynx, limited mouth opening.

5) Patients with obstruction of the airway beyond the larynx like foreign body, masses(cancer), strictures, congenital obstruction, vocal cord scarring, inflammatory conditions like laryngitis, bronchitis, laryngeal pappilomatosis etc.

6) Patients with decreased compliance of lungs like asthma, pneumonitis etc.

7) History of prematurity, seizures, syndromic babies and congenital heart disease

8) History of recent upper respiratory tract infection

9) Children with reported allergy to silicon material.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To compare oropharyngeal leak pressure (OPLP) of LMA Blockbuster after blind insertion versus Miller laryngoscope guided insertion in pediatric patients under General Anaesthesia.Timepoint: 90min

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To compare the LMA insertion time,ease of insertion,haemodynamic changes,first attempt successs rate of ETT insertion and post operative complications after <br/ ><br>LMA Blockbuster blind insertion versus Miller laryngoscope guided insertion in pediatric patients under General Anaesthesia.Timepoint: 90min