Intubation With McGrath Video Laryngoscope and Boedeker Intubation Foreceps in a Population of Patients With Predictors of Difficult Airway

Completed

• Conditions: Patients With One or More Predictors of Difficult Airway
• Interventions: Device: Intubation with mcgrath videolaryngoscope and Boedeker intubation foreceps

• Registration Number: NCT01976546
• Lead Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Brief Summary

Tracheal intubation with videolaryngoscopes have been widely studied, and is now often used in the management of difficult airways.

Videolaryngoscopes with angulated blades can improve laryngeal view, however this does not always match with a higher intubation succes. To adress this matter the aim of this study is gathering experience with intubation with mcgrath videolaryngoscope and a blade-shape intubation foreceps (Boedeker intubation foreceps, Karl Storz, Germany).

The hypothesis is that intubation with this combination is easy and can be a good alternative when using the McGrath videolaryngoscope in patients with predictors of difficult airway.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-09
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-29
• Study First Posted: 2013-11-06
• Primary Completion: 2013-12
• Study Completion: 2013-12
• Status Verified: 2014-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-10-24
• Last Update Posted: 2014-10-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

• patients scheduled for elective surgery
• age over 18 or more
• planned intubation with mcgrath videolaryngoscope
• informed conscent obtained
• patients are
• patients shall be able to read and understand Danish

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients planned to awake intubation
• stridor
• hypoxia defined by saturation under 90% without oxygen supply
• patients with oxygentreatment at home
• patients that need a wired tube
• patients that need a preshaped tube
• patients that need crash induction
• use of gastric tube

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
airway	Intubation with mcgrath videolaryngoscope and Boedeker intubation foreceps	Patients with one or more predictors of diffucult airway

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to intubation	within one day

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sore throat	within 2 days
succesful intubation	within one day
Damage on teeth	2 days
Intubation difficulty	within one day	Intubation difficulty scale
Intubation conditions	within one day	a.m fuchs-buder
Intubation attempts	within one day

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Dept. of Anaesthesia, Centre of Head and Orthopedics 4231, Rigshospitalet; 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark