Compare two instruments used to visualise the windpipe and then put a tube through the windpipe in patients undergoing surgery for head and neck cancers.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- ASA I/II, adults patients undergoing head and neck surgeries
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/05/013771
- Lead Sponsor
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
ASA grade I/II
Mallampatti grade I and II
Patients needing nasotracheal intubation for elective head and neck surgeries
1. Refusal of consent.
2. Patients having risk factors for gastric aspiration.
3. Patients with previously documented difficult tracheal intubation.
4. Patients who had undergone previous head and neck surgery.
5. Emergency surgical procedure.
6. Patients with an anticipated difficult airway. Criteria for difficult airway are as follows: (2 or more)
a) Thyromental distance less than 6 cm b)â?? Mallampatti classification III or IV c)â??Inter-incisor distance less than 4 cm. d) Jaw subluxation 0 or -1 e)â??Neck extension less than 90 degrees f) Radiotherapy to head or neck region g) Limited tongue protrusion h)â??Obesity â?? BMI more than 35 i) Buck teeth / missing incisors
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method