Comparison between two types of tubes used to place a tube in wind pipe (tracheal intubation)for anesthesia through a device called LMA CTrach
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- surgery
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2014/01/004314
- Lead Sponsor
- MANIPAL UNIVERSITY
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
Patients of either gender aged between 18- 65 years, belonging to American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status 1 and 2, who are scheduled for surgical procedures under general anesthesia requiring tracheal intubation
Exclusion Criteria
1.Mouth opening less than 2.5cms
2.Patients with anticipated difficult airway
3.Patients with risk of regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration (inadequate fasting, pregnancy, morbid obesity, emergency surgeries requiring rapid sequence induction of anesthesia, history suggestive of acid peptic disease)
4.BMI >35 kg/m2
5.Oral, maxillofacial or laryngeal pathology where LMA CTrach• insertion is contraindicated or difficult.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Success rate of intubation including first attempt success rate <br/ ><br>2. Ease of intubationTimepoint: during tracheal intubation with LMA CTrach (one point assessment) <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Presence of blood or blood stain on LMA CTrachâ?¢ and tracheal tube after its removalTimepoint: at the time of removal of LMA and extubation;The number and type of manipulations of LMA CTrachâ?¢ done to bring the tracheal tube tip and glottis in alignment during intubationTimepoint: At the time of tracheal intubation;The presence or absence of sore throat and hoarseness of voice during first 24 hours following surgery and its severityTimepoint: assessed at one point 24 hours following surgery and as reported by the patient at any point of time during these 24 hours;time taken from the beginning of insertion of tracheal tube till removal of LMA CTrach following successful intubationTimepoint: At the time of tracheal intubation