To study the effect of three head positions on ease of placing tube in wind pipe
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R098- Other specified symptoms and signsinvolving the circulatory and respiratory systems
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/01/022744
- Lead Sponsor
- Safdarjung Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients belonging to American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I and II, scheduled for elective surgery under general anesthesia with tracheal intubation
Exclusion Criteria
1.Patients with predicted difficult airway requiring awake tracheal intubation
2.Obvious malformation of the neck or face, known oropharyngeal pathology, unstable cervical spine
3.Patients requiring rapid sequence intubation
4.Pregnancy
5. BMI > 30 kg/m2
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To compare the neutral, sniffing and simple extension head position for ease of videolaryngoscopy-guided tracheal intubation using Modified Intubation Difficulty Score in adult patients undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesiaTimepoint: At the time of videolaryngoscopy and tracheal intubation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Intubation time <br/ ><br>2. Laryngoscopic view assessed by Cormack and Lehane grading and by Percentage of Glottic Opening (POGO) score <br/ ><br>3. First attempt success rate <br/ ><br>Timepoint: At the time of videolaryngoscopy and tracheal intubation