â??Clinical trial to compare gestation age-based, weight-based, and nasal-tragus length method for estimation of optimal insertiondepth of endotracheal tube in neonatesâ??
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: J969- Respiratory failure, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/12/048221
- Lead Sponsor
- abhishek yadav
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Neonates born in the hospital between 25+0 weeks and 41+6 weeks gestation age will be included if they are intubated for ventilation during the neonatal period(0-28 days)
Exclusion Criteria
1.Major congenital malformation including craniofacial malformation
2.Neonates with any suspected chromosomal disorder
3.Intubation during neonatal resuscitation at birth
4.Intubation during emergency
5.Neonates <25 weeks of gestation age or <500 gm birth weight
6.Chest radiograph not likely to be available within 6 hours of intubation
7.Re-intubation
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Proportion of optimally placed endotracheal tube tip (between the upper border of T1 and lower border of T2 vertebra in chest radiograph)Timepoint: within 6 hours of intubation
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Incidence of ETT tip being too high (above the upper border of the first thoracic vertebra) <br/ ><br>2.Incidence of ETT tip being too low (below the lower border of the second thoracic vertebra) <br/ ><br>3.Incidence of ETT tip at the level of the carina <br/ ><br>4.Episodes of bradycardia (heart rate100 beats/min) within 30 minutes of intubation <br/ ><br>5.New onset pneumothorax within 6 hours of intubation <br/ ><br>6.Need for ETT repositioning after chest radiograph <br/ ><br>7.New onset intraventricular hemorrhage (any grade) within 24 hours of intubation <br/ ><br>8.Duration of invasive ventilation <br/ ><br>9.Death before discharge <br/ ><br>Timepoint: After recruitment of 150 cases