Difficult intubation can be known beforehand in ICU patients using MACOCHA score
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J22- Unspecified acute lower respiratory infection
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/09/045200
- Lead Sponsor
- Sharda hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients of either gender requiring endotracheal intubation in ICU for mechanical ventilation.
Age above 18 years
Exclusion Criteria
obstetric patients
non consenting patients and patients attendant
cardiac arrest patients needing urgent tracheal intubation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate MACOCHA score in ICU patients for tracheal intubation and correlate with Cormack-Lehane grade during laryngoscopyTimepoint: 15 mins
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To study complications in patients with high MACOCHA score <br/ ><br>To study factors contributing towards physiological difficult airway such as shock and acidosisTimepoint: 12hours