Airway Management, Emergency Treatment, Intubation Intratracheal
Conditions
Keywords
Out-of-hospital, airway management, intubation, video laryngoscope
Brief summary
This research project examines the effectiveness of different video laryngoscopes in a out-of-hospital emergency intubation. Since in preclinical airway management severe incidents with esophageal failures of intubation may partly happen or rather endotracheal Intubation may completely fail, it is of great importance to evaluate alternative ways of endotracheal intubation in out-of-hospital emergency medicine. Video laryngoscopy has been proven in everyday clinical practice and may clinically be superior in most situations when compared to endotracheal Intubation using a conventional laryngoscope. No data exist, if different video laryngoscope types perform differently in the out-of-hospital setting. The investigators hypothesize that there would be no difference with regard to intubation time, intubation success, and intubation morbidity between different models of video laryngoscopes.
Interventions
DEVICEIntubation
Tracheal Intubation with the assigned video laryngoscope
Sponsors
Karl Storz Endoscopy, Germany
King Systems Corporation
LMA, Germany
Venner Medical, Germany
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
\- All adult emergency patients, age 18 years and older for whom a preclinical emergency intubation is necessary
Exclusion criteria
* Age under 18 years * Laryngoscopy according to the algorithm of airway management not being indicated
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intubation success | Immediately after intubation |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intubation on first attempt | Immediately after intubation |
| Intubation time | Immediately after intubation |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed