Comparison of Conventional GlideScope to Single-Use GlideScope Cobalt for Orotracheal Intubation

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy
• Interventions: Device: Conventional (reusable) Glidescope; Device: Single-use Glidescope videolaryngoscope

• Registration Number: NCT00459797
• Lead Sponsor: Lawson Health Research Institute

Brief Summary

Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to being intubated with either the conventional (reusable) GlideScope videolaryngoscope or the single-use GlideScope videolaryngoscope. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-04
• Study First Submitted: 2007-04-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-04-12
• Study First Posted: 2007-04-13
• Primary Completion: 2008-08
• Study Completion: 2008-08
• Status Verified: 2009-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-04-20
• Last Update Posted: 2009-04-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• Any patient who is ≥ 18 yrs. coming for elective surgery.
• Endotracheal tube is indicated for the procedure in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.
• Any operator who has performed ≥ 10 GlideScope intubations.

Exclusion Criteria

• Any patient in whom the use of the GlideScope is contraindicated in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.
• Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities.
• Any patients with known or probable difficult airways (this rare occurrence is unlikely to be evenly distributed between the groups and could skew the data).
• Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Conventional Glidescope	Conventional (reusable) Glidescope	-
Single-use Glidescope	Single-use Glidescope videolaryngoscope	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to intubation (seconds)	Immediate

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Ease of intubation	after intubation
Number of intubation attempts per group	after intubation
Incidence of trauma in each group	after intubation
Number of failures to intubate per group	after intubation
Use of external laryngeal pressure per group	after intubation
Laryngoscopic grade distribution in each group	after intubation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

London Health Sciences Centre; 🇨🇦 London, Ontario, Canada