Study to validate the formulae generated from an earlier study to predict the airway distances relevant in childre
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Children coming for surgery under general anaesthesia
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/03/012592
- Lead Sponsor
- PGIMER Chandigarh
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 202
Inclusion Criteria
Children scheduled for elective surgery under general anaesthesia in age group of 3 to 15 years were enrolled. We thus conducted our study in normal paediatric population without obvious anomalies of face, neck and airway to validate the formulae.
Exclusion Criteria
1) Patients requiring emergency surgical procedures
2)Children with obvious anomalies of airway, neck swelling, facial anomalies, restricted
mouth opening and cleft lip
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Agreement of age based predicted mentohyoid distance and actual measured mentohyoid distance.Timepoint: Pre-op
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Agreement of age-based predicted thyromental distance and actual measure thyromental distanceTimepoint: Pre-op;Agreement of height based predicted thyromental distance and actual measured thyromental distanceTimepoint: Pre-op;Agreement of height-based predicted mentohoid distance and actual measured mentohyoid distanceTimepoint: Pre-op