Comparison between direct and video laryngoscope,in securing the airway in patients who are not suspected to have difficult airway.
Phase 1
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J989- Respiratory disorder, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/05/033361
- Lead Sponsor
- Shri B M Patil Medical College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
ASA 1 and ASA 2
Patients requiring endotracheal intubation for elective surgeries under general anaesthesia.
Age between 18 and 60 years.
Both male and female patients
Exclusion Criteria
Patient refusal or inability to consent
Patients undergoing rapid sequence intubation.
Patients having restricted cervical extension and movements, tumours of oropharyngeal region, trauma to airway, previous surgeries in neck, local infection of neck, burns and swellings in neck region, previous difficult intubation.
Pregnant patients.
Obese patients BMI >30kg/m2
Patients with any of the following conditions were predicted to have difficult airway
thyromental distance <6cm
mouth opening <3cm
cervical ankyloses
class IV Mallampati score
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method to calculate and compare time to intubate. <br/ ><br>visualization of the laryngeal view by Cormack-Lehane grade. <br/ ><br>Successful first attempt.Timepoint: to calculate time to intubate <br/ ><br>at start of procedure/baseline. <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method number of intubation failure. <br/ ><br>number of attempts. <br/ ><br>change of anaesthesist and use of adjunct equipment. <br/ ><br>complications like oropharyngeal trauma,neck pain,dysphagia,hoarseness.Timepoint: complications in the recovery room and within 24 hours.