Utilization of Airway Stabilizing Rod to Assist With LMA Guided Fiberoptic Intubation in Children
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Airway Complication of Anesthesia
- Sponsor
- Baylor College of Medicine
- Enrollment
- 20
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Overall time in the airway
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
The pediatric airway is known to be more challenging than the adult airway when performing endotracheal intubation. When a patient cannot be ventilated and/or intubated, the guidelines for airway management dictate that a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) be used as a rescue device to oxygenate and ventilate the patient. While an excellent device the LMA is seen as temporary and ultimately needs to be replaced by an endotracheal tube (ETT).
Detailed Description
The objective is to study this device in patients with difficult airway to assess the success rate and time to intubation for placing an endotracheal tube using this device.
Investigators
Arvind Chandrakantan
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Ages 5-18 years
- •Requiring intubation
- •Known difficult airway
- •LMA placement possible
Exclusion Criteria
- •Known normal airway
- •Procedure not requiring endotracheal intubation
- •Parental refusal
- •Patient dissent
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Overall time in the airway
Time Frame: 5 minutes
Time from fiberoptic placement onto airway to documentation of end-tidal carbon dioxide waveform through the endotracheal tube.
Total time to intubation
Time Frame: 3 minutes
Time from movement of the device to documentation of end-tidal carbon dioxide waveform through the endotracheal tube.