Adverse Events, Airway Complication of Anesthesia
Conditions
Keywords
Intubation, Intratracheal, Anesthesiology, Difficult Airway, Critical events
Brief summary
The overall objective of the study is to evaluate and analyze major and minor incidents during airway management in adults under anaesthesia care at all study sites. The patient characteristics, type of airway management is recorded and if airway management-related incidents occur, they are analyzed in more detail to improve patient safety in the future.
Detailed description
It is a prospective observational cross-sectional European multi-centre study collecting health-related patient data on anaesthetic airway management over three months. This detects the incidence and nature of local airway management problems and assesses how they are solved. This will enable the investigators to identify generalisable interventions and recommendations to further improve patients' airway management to improve patient safety. During the observational period, the anaesthesia staff in charge will fill out a screening questionnaire for airway management for every patient undergoing anaesthesia care with airway management. The investigators will extract the characteristics from the local anaesthesia record system for all patients. If no event arises, there are no further requirements. If an event occurs, the anaesthesia provider will fill out an additional form asking for more details on what happened.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
University of Bern
University of Lausanne Hospitals
Kantonsspital Aarau
Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* All adult patients requiring airway management under anaesthesia care for elective, semi-elective, urgent or emergency diagnostic procedures or interventions. Airway management includes awake and asleep tracheal intubation, insertion of supraglottic airway devices, and face mask ventilation. * Patients older than 18 years of age * Informed consent given or general consent in place, according to local ethics committee requirements.
Exclusion criteria
* Refusal to give consent or withdrawal of consent. * Patients \<18 years.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of airway management related incidents | 30 days | Primary study outcome is the number of anaesthesia cases with at least one airway management related incidents in adult patients under anaesthesia care. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Incidences of the individual major incidents | 30 days | Secondary study outcome parameters are the incidences of the major critical events and the number of incidents per case incidents. |
| The Incidences of the individual minor incidents | 30 days | Secondary study outcome parameters are the incidences of the minor critical events and the number of incidents per case incidents. |
Countries
Germany, Switzerland
Contacts
CONTACTThomas Riva, MD,PD
CONTACTAlexander Fuchs, MD
STUDY_CHAIRRobert Greif, MD, Prof
Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University
Outcome results
None listed