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Does Diabetes Make It Harder for Doctors to Manage a Patient s Airway During Surgery?

Comparing difficult airway predictors for intubation difficulty: Diabetic versus Non-Diabetic Patients - NIL

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2026/01/100573
Enrollment
200
Registered
2026-01-08
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-02-02

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Nil: Nil

Sponsors

Mahatma Gandhi medical college and hospital
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients of age 18-70 years Patients of all genders Patients posted for surgery under general anaesthesia requiring endotracheal intubation. ASA Grade 1/2/3

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients with the previous history of difficult intubation Obvious anatomical deformity (congenital, traumatic, post surgical origin) of face, neck, palate and hands. Coexisting factors like rheumatoid arthritis, large thyroid, airway trauma. Emergency surgeries. Pregnant & lactating females

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
To find out the single best clinical parameter of airway assessment and its ability to predict difficult intubation (measured by CL grading) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM).Timepoint: 30 minutes after induction of general anaesthesia—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
To find out if prolonged diabetes more than 10 years correlates with increased difficulty in intubationTimepoint: 30 minutes after induction of general anaesthesia—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactDr kalpana verma

Mahatma gandhi medical college and hospital

drpriyamvada@hotmail.co.uk7976568252

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 7, 2026