GlideScope Groove vs. Standard GlideScope: A Non-inferiority Study

Not Applicable

Withdrawn

• Conditions: Intubation, Orotracheal
• Interventions: Device: GlideScope Groove

• Registration Number: NCT01489605
• 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 GlideScope Groove video-laryngoscope or the standard GlideScope video-laryngoscope.

Detailed Description

See above. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2011-12-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-12-08
• Study First Posted: 2011-12-09
• Status Verified: 2019-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-02-26
• Last Update Posted: 2019-02-28
• Study Start: 2019-07
• Primary Completion: 2020-06
• Study Completion: 2020-06

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• Any adult patient booked for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities.
2. Any patients with known or probable difficult airways.
3. Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
GlideScope Groove	GlideScope Groove	Patients will be intubated using the GlideScope Groove device. (Verathon)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Duration of Intubation	Day 1	Duration of Intubation - Mask removal to ETCO2 confirmation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Sore Throat	Day 3	Patients will be surveyed with respect to the incidence of post-operative sore throat.
Incidence of trauma	Day 1	Incidence of trauma
Ease of intubation	Day 1	Ease of intubation as noted by operator (measured on a 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale)
Number of failures to intubate	Day 1	Number of failures to intubate
Use of external laryngeal pressure	Day 1	Use of external laryngeal pressure
Laryngoscopic grade distribution	Day 1	Laryngoscopic grade distribution according to Cormack and Lehane classification

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

London Health Sciences Center University Hospital; 🇨🇦 London, Ontario, Canada

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