Measurement of thickness of skin and underlying fat in the front of the neck using ultrasound and correlation with neck circumference to know whether there can be any difficulty in inserting an endotracheal tube or not
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/04/051608
- Lead Sponsor
- Pt BD Sharma University of Health Sciences, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 43
Inclusion Criteria
Patients belonging to American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) I to III scheduled for elective surgical procedure under general anaesthesia requiring tracheal intubation.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients with cervical spine pathology, facial and tongue anomalies or any other airway anomaly, restricted mouth opening ( <2.5cm), those who were previously tracheostomised, pregnant women, edentulous and who refuse to participate in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Predicting difficult laryngoscopy and intubation.Timepoint: Assessment of clinical parameters, USG parameters before induction of anaesthesia at baseline. <br/ ><br>At the time of bag and mask ventilation, laryngoscopy and intubation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To find correlation between ultrasound guided parameters and clinical parametersTimepoint: During statistical calculation.