Health Condition 1: 4- Measurement and Monitoring
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients undergoing elective thyroid surgery, Age between 18yrs to 65 yrs, ASA 2, Under general anaesthesia with oral endotracheal tube.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Tracheostomy, Anaplastic or advanced cancer, Cervical spine injury or cervical disease, Pregnant patients, Atlanto-occipital extension difficulty, Patient refusal, Inability to give consent to the study, Emergency surgeries.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the predictiveness of known conventional difficulty airway predictors and ultrasound guided parameters for difficult laryngoscopy in terms of cormach lehane grading in patients with thyroid swelling for thyroid surgery.Timepoint: At baseline | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Timepoint: | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Sri Ramachandra institute of higher education and research