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Impact on Postoperative Pain of Three Single-use Adult Supraglottic Airway Devices in Short General Anesthetic Under Controlled Ventilation

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Pharyngolaryngeal Postoperative Pain
Registration Number
NCT03614598
Lead Sponsor
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Brief Summary

The investigators hypothesize that incidence of pharyngolaryngeal postoperative pain caused by the I-gel and LMA-Suprême devices will be ≤ 5%

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
546
Inclusion Criteria
  • The patient must have given their free and informed consent and signed the consent form
  • The patient must be a member or beneficiary of a health insurance plan
  • Adult patients > 18
  • ASA score I-III
  • Patient scheduled to undergo elective surgery lasting less than two hours under general anaesthetic without tracheal intubation
  • The subject is participating in an interventional study, or is in a period of exclusion determined by a previous study
  • The subject refuses to sign the consent
  • It is impossible to give the subject informed information
  • The patient is under safeguard of justice or state guardianship
  • The patient is pregnant or breastfeeding
  • Emergency surgery
  • Sore thoat ≤ 1 month
  • Risk of aspiration of gastric contents
  • Body mass index (BMI) > 35
  • Patients with expected airway difficulties
  • Contra-indication for any of the devices (symptomatic hiatal hernias, pathological obesity, poly trauma or serious injury, delayed gastric emptying, use of opiates during fasting)
  • Patients who are not fasting for routine and emergency anesthesia
  • Trismus, limited mouth opening, abscess or pharyngoperilaryngeal mass
Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Incidence of pharyngolaryngeal postoperative pain of the three devices24 hours

Sore throat Y/N

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time taken to place deviceEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

From first attempt at introduction until acceptable exhaled CO2 curve attained (seconds)

Necessity of altering the size of the deviceEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

Y/N

Total leakage pressure of the devicesEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

measured directly by the respirator

Device stability during surgeryEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

Need to change the management system airways (orotracheal intubation or others) Y/N

Any patient movement during procedureEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

Y/N

Ventilatory pressure of the devicesEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)
Pharyngolaryngeal postoperative pain between groups2 hours

Sore throat Y/N

Number of attempts needed to place deviceEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)
Difficulty of insertionEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

5-point scale: very easy-failure

Difficulty of device removalEnd of surgery (maximum 2 hours)

4-point scale: very easy-very difficult

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

CHU Nimes

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Nîmes, France

CHU Nimes
🇫🇷Nîmes, France

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