Intubation, Orotracheal
Conditions
Keywords
Orotracheal intubation, videolaryngoscopy
Brief summary
Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to being intubated with either the GlideScope Groove video-laryngoscope or the standard GlideScope video-laryngoscope.
Detailed description
See above. The primary outcome is time to intubation.
Interventions
DEVICEGlideScope Groove
Patients will be intubated using the GlideScope Groove device. (Verathon)
DEVICEControl: Standard GlideScope
Patients will be intubated using the standard GlideScope. (Verathon)
Sponsors
University of Western Ontario, Canada
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
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Any adult patient booked for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation.
Exclusion criteria
1. Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities. 2. Any patients with known or probable difficult airways. 3. Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Duration of Intubation | Day 1 | Duration of Intubation - Mask removal to ETCO2 confirmation |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Incidence of trauma | Day 1 | Incidence of trauma |
| Number of failures to intubate | Day 1 | Number of failures to intubate |
| Ease of intubation | Day 1 | Ease of intubation as noted by operator (measured on a 100 mm Visual Analogue Scale) |
| Laryngoscopic grade distribution | Day 1 | Laryngoscopic grade distribution according to Cormack and Lehane classification |
| Sore Throat | Day 3 | Patients will be surveyed with respect to the incidence of post-operative sore throat. |
| Use of external laryngeal pressure | Day 1 | Use of external laryngeal pressure |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed