Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score

Intubation Clinical Trial

Official title:

The "KU Score": Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score; an Observational Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03060187
• Other study ID #: 12093
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 27, 2017
• Last updated: February 17, 2017
• Start date: February 2010
• Est. completion date: January 2011

Study information

• Verified date: February 2017
• Source: University of Kansas Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this observational study is to evaluate the usefulness of Kansas University airway exam score ("KU score") in predicting difficulty of placement of a breathing tube into the windpipe.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2000
• Est. completion date: January 2011
• Est. primary completion date: January 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-IV

• Patients scheduled for a surgical or any other diagnostic or therapeutic procedure that requires endotracheal intubation (ETI)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients scheduled for an emergent surgery

• Obstetric patients

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Intubation

Intervention

Other:
• KU Score
Exam with a max score of 10 and min score of 0. Designed as a preoperative assessment of the patient's airway.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Kansas Medical Center	Kansas City	Kansas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Kansas Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Correlation between KU score and intubation difficulty scale (IDS) measure	The measure is assessed during the time period between the start of preoperative examination on the day of surgery and completion of a standard tracheal intubation in the operating room. Correlation measured using the Spearman correlation coefficient.	Time between preoperative exam to after intubation, up to 3 hours