Comparing the efficacy of C-MAC C-blade videolaryngoscope and Macintosh laryngoscope in patients with predicted difficult airways
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- 18-60 years of age undergoing elective or emergency surgery belonging to ASA physical status 1-3 requiring general anaesthesia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/09/009810
- Lead Sponsor
- JIPMER Intramural fund
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
18-60 years of age undergoing elective or emergency surgery belonging to ASA physical status classification of 1-3 requiring general anaesthesia with orotracheal intubation having any one or combination of the following predictors of difficult airway The predictors include
1 Mallampatti classification 3 or 4
2 Thyromental distance of less than 6cm
3 Reduced range of neck movements inability to touch the sternum with chin or inability to extend neck
4 Maxillary overbite or buck tooth
5 Short neck
6 Neck circumference more than 36cm
7 Inability to prognathe the jaw
8 Noncompliant mandibular space
9 Long incisor length
10 Reduced mandibular space
1 Pregnant women
2 Patients with aspiration risk or requiring Rapid sequence induction (RSI)
3 Patients with laryngeal or tracheal pathologies
4 Mouth opening less than less than 3 cm
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method C-MAC videolaryngoscope can increase the first intubation success rate in predicted difficult airways compared to Macintosh laryngoscope.Timepoint: 12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method C-MAC videolaryngoscope can improve the glottic view in predicted difficult airways compared to Macintosh laryngoscope.Timepoint: 12 months