Frequency of Airway Complications During General Anaesthesia After Introducing Five Handling Adaptations

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Completed

• Conditions: Airway Complications
• Interventions: Procedure: Introducing five different treating adaptations

• Registration Number: NCT02743767
• Lead Sponsor: Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if five simple adaptations in airway management of patients undergoing general anaesthesia can reduce minor and major airway complications.

After a first detection of causes of airway complications during general anaesthesia investigators initiated five different interventions in airway management, which were: immediate bag-valve mask ventilation after administering of muscle relaxants, optimized preoxygenation, introducing of a preinterventional checklist, increased usage of video laryngoscopy and immediate change of provider in case of failed intubation.

In a second phase of this observational study investigators want to evaluate if these five interventions can reduce minor and major airway complications during general anaesthesia.

Additionally, investigators want to record how many critical incidents (CIRS) occur during this observational period and how many of them will be reported by the involved stuff.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-05
• Study First Submitted: 2016-04-05
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-04-14
• Study First Posted: 2016-04-19
• Primary Completion: 2016-07
• Study Completion: 2016-09
• Status Verified: 2016-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-11-09
• Last Update Posted: 2016-11-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 7455

Inclusion Criteria

• Must receive a general anaesthesia with any form of airway management

Exclusion Criteria

• Anaesthesia without airway management
• Patients who do not give or who withdraw general consent

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
After interventions	Introducing five different treating adaptations	After introducing five different treating adaptations in airway management we want to record the frequency of airway complications during general anaesthesia.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reduction of airway complications after introducing five treatment adaptations	2 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Frequency of reporting critical incident (CIRS)	2 months
Postoperative side effects after routinely general anaesthesia	2 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital; 🇨🇭 Berne, Switzerland