Laryngoscope Prototype Tested Against the Traditional Macintosh Blade
- Conditions
- Anesthesia, Intravenous
- Registration Number
- NCT00378170
- Lead Sponsor
- Herlev Hospital
- Brief Summary
The primary objective is to evaluate a knewly developed blade (for intubating patients about to undergo surgery) and compare it to the traditional Macintosh blade
- Detailed Description
Intubation of patiens can be difficult, even impossible. It can result in different complications as damage to the teeth, lacerations of the mucosa, bleeding, fractures/luxations, hypoxia, hypercapnia, reflex bradycardia and in worst case braindamage and death.
The more difficult the intubation is the more frequent complicationrate. We believe to have developed a laryngoscopeblade that hopefully eases the intubationproces and thereby reduces the complicationrisk.
The patients included in this study is patients who are undergoing elective surgery requering intubation.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 210
- age over 18
- ASA 1-III
- Patients undergoing elective surgery requering intubation at KAS Herlev
- Prior difficult intubation indicating awake fiberoptic intubation
- pathology in the airways predicting difficult intubation
- columna cervicalis fractures
- pregnancy
- Requirement for Rapid sequence induction
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method succes rate - immediate evaluation difficulty - immediate evaluation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Interincissor gap Time to intubate Cormack & Lehane grading vissible complication
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
KAS Herlev university Hospital
🇩🇰Herlev, Denmark