Healthy
Conditions
Keywords
GlideScope, cobalt, single-use, intubation, airway, Elective surgical patients requiring orotracheal intubation
Brief summary
Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to being intubated with either the conventional (reusable) GlideScope videolaryngoscope or the single-use GlideScope videolaryngoscope. The primary outcome is time to intubation.
Interventions
DEVICEConventional (reusable) Glidescope
DEVICESingle-use Glidescope videolaryngoscope
Sponsors
London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Any patient who is ≥ 18 yrs. coming for elective surgery. * Endotracheal tube is indicated for the procedure in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist. * Any operator who has performed ≥ 10 GlideScope intubations.
Exclusion criteria
* Any patient in whom the use of the GlideScope is contraindicated in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist. * Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities. * Any patients with known or probable difficult airways (this rare occurrence is unlikely to be evenly distributed between the groups and could skew the data). * Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Time to intubation (seconds) | Immediate |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Number of intubation attempts per group | after intubation |
| Incidence of trauma in each group | after intubation |
| Ease of intubation | after intubation |
| Use of external laryngeal pressure per group | after intubation |
| Laryngoscopic grade distribution in each group | after intubation |
| Number of failures to intubate per group | after intubation |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed