Utility of Tracheal Ultrasonography for the Confirmation of the Endotracheal Tube Placement

Completed

• Conditions: Intubation Complication

• Registration Number: NCT03220698
• Lead Sponsor: Marmara University

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to compare tracheal ultrasound with direct visualization of tracheal rings for the confirmation of endotracheal tube placement in intubated patients. We hypothesize that this method is more reliable, cheap, and readily available for all emergency physicians.

Detailed Description

Confirmation of the ETT placement has utmost importance in the management of airway in emergency medicine (EM). Visual examination of the tube (fogging), auscultation, chest x-ray, capnography, capnometry and fiberoptic bronchoscopy are the main tools used for confirmation with increasing diagnostic utilities. Recently, tracheal ultrasonography (US) was introduced as a reliable, cheap and readily available method of confirmation of ETT placement.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-01
• Primary Completion: 2017-01
• Study Completion: 2017-01
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Study First Submitted: 2017-07-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-07-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-14
• Study First Posted: 2017-07-18
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 360

Inclusion Criteria

• adults (>=18 years)
• intubated in the ED
• during the shifts of the researchers (TM, OFC).

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Exclusion Criteria

• anatomical, traumatic or tumoral defect(s) at the site of sonographic imaging

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Presence of endotracheal tube in trachea	Immediately after the intubation process	Whether the endotracheal tube is in the trachea or not