A study to compare sonographic measurements of neck structures with visualisation of voice box to predict difficult intubation in patients for planned surgeries under total anesthesia in hospitals
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- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: O- Medical and Surgical
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/07/026400
- Lead Sponsor
- Department of anaesthesiology DrSNMedical college jodhpur
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients belonging to ASA classification I, II and III with age 18 to 70 years of both sex undergoing elective surgery requiring general anaesthesia with direct laryngoscopy and endotracheal intubation.
Exclusion Criteria
The patients with mouth opening less than 3 centimetres, edentulous patients, with head and neck anatomical pathologies that might have unpredictable effect on the usg assessment of the airway, who are not able to extend their neck >30 degree, the patients with cervical spine pathology ,uncooperative patients and pregnant patients.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method to evaluate usg parameters for airway and compare them to Cormack Lehane classification to predict difficult intubation.Timepoint: At the end of one year
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To find out the usg parameters for easy intubation as assessed by CL classification grades 1 and 2; <br/ ><br>To find out the usg parameters for DI as assessed by CL classification grades 3 and 4; <br/ ><br>To find out any correlation of the USG parameters with various grades of CL classification; <br/ ><br>To find out relation age, sex, body mass index to the usg parameters to assess airway. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: At the end one year