Intubation of a Pediatric Manikin in Difficult Airway by Novice Personnel: A Comparison of Glidescope and Airtraq

Intubation; Difficult Clinical Trial

Official title:

Face-to-face Intubation With Glidescope or Airtraq

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02290249
• Other study ID #: KOU KAEK 2014/145
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• First received: October 31, 2014
• Last updated: March 31, 2015
• Start date: November 2014
• Est. completion date: January 2015

Study information

• Verified date: March 2015
• Source: Kocaeli University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background and aims: Glidescope and Airtraq were designed to facilitate intubation and to improve teaching intubation. The investigators want to find their efficacy in normal airway, tongue edema and face-to-face orotracheal intubation models by novice personal.

Material and Methods: After Kocaeli Human Researches Ethics Committee approval, thirty six medical students who were on the beginning of their third year were enrolled in this study. After watching a video about the intubation of one of these devices, they attempted to intubate an adult manikin in three different airway models in a random order; first in normal airway, second, tongue edema and finally, in an entrapped manikin by face-to-face approach with Glidescope or Airtraq. Intubation attempts, insertion and intubation times, success rates, Cormack-Lehane grades, need of maneuvers of these devices were recorded.

Description:

Trauma victims mostly had to be intubated at the scene of the area with the paramedics. In a suspect of a cervical trauma, patients must be intubated with the least movement. Videolaryngoscopic techniques had several advantages at this condition. We want to investigate which can be used easily by novice personnel.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 36
• Est. completion date: January 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• medical students at their third year,

• novice personnel

Exclusion Criteria:

• anesthesists,

• anesthesia residents,

• skilled investigators of tracheal intubation

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Edema of the Tongue
• Intubation; Difficult

Intervention

Device:
• Glidescope
Manikin was intubated by different novice personal with glidescope videolaryngoscope
• Airtraq
Pediatric manikin was intubated by novice personal with airtraq

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kocaeli University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	intubation success rates	We recorded the first and total intubation success rates of the intubation with one of these devices	5 minutes
Secondary	intubation time	from the handling of the device till viewing the endotracheal tube entering the vocal cords	5 minutes
Secondary	Esophageal intubation	is there an esophageal intubation occurred while inserting the tube or not	5 minutes
Secondary	need of optimisation maneuvers	do we need an optimization maneuver while intubating or while viewing the glottis or not	5 minutes