Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score

Completed

• Conditions: Intubation
• Interventions: Other: KU Score

• Registration Number: NCT03060187
• Lead Sponsor: University of Kansas Medical Center

Brief Summary

The purpose of this observational study is to evaluate the usefulness of Kansas University airway exam score ("KU score") in predicting difficulty of placement of a breathing tube into the windpipe.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-02
• Primary Completion: 2011-01
• Study Completion: 2011-01
• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-27
• Status Verified: 2017-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-02-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-02-17
• Study First Posted: 2017-02-23
• Last Update Posted: 2017-02-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2000

Inclusion Criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-IV
• Patients scheduled for a surgical or any other diagnostic or therapeutic procedure that requires endotracheal intubation (ETI)

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients scheduled for an emergent surgery
• Obstetric patients

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
KU Score	KU Score	Participants asked to answer questions for the KU Score exam

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Correlation between KU score and intubation difficulty scale (IDS) measure	Time between preoperative exam to after intubation, up to 3 hours	The measure is assessed during the time period between the start of preoperative examination on the day of surgery and completion of a standard tracheal intubation in the operating room. Correlation measured using the Spearman correlation coefficient.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Kansas Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Kansas, United States