The utility of ultrasound in the prediction of difficult laryngoscopy
- Conditions
- Anaesthesia
- Registration Number
- PACTR202109682609409
- Lead Sponsor
- Karim Bouzid
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 205
patients older than 18 years of age, of either sex,
- with an American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score of I, II or III,
- candidates for elective procedures under general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation and direct laryngoscopy after receiving a myorelaxant
- impossibility to obtain an acoustic window
- modification of the anesthesia or airway management protocol
- suspicion of subglottic stenosis after intubation
- Intubation operator considered inexperienced: experience <1.5 years
- incapacity to evaluate clinical criteria: craniofacial and cervical trauma
- incapacity of the patient to give his consent: dementia, agitation, altered state of consciousness,
- conditions requiring the use of videolaryngoscopy or fibroscopy : inter-incisor gap<2,5 cm et /ou fixed cervical spine,
- contraindication to propofol and/or succinylcholine,
- Pregnancy and 6 first weeks postpartum,
- abnormalities and malformations of the upper airways,
- a thyroid goiter
- a tracheostomy.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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