Hypnosis to Perform Awake Intubation

Nasal Obstruction Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Hypnosis as a Sole Agent to Perform Awake Intubation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02513511
• Other study ID #: 169/14
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 1, 2015
• Est. completion date: September 25, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: September 2019
• Source: University of Lausanne Hospitals
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Awake intubation is a recommended safety procedure in specific cases where the intubation or ventilation before general anesthesia is at risk.

Numerous techniques to allow awake intubation have been described, such as pure awake technique, local anesthetics or intravenous sedation for example.

Hypnosis is used for various operating room techniques and surgeries. The investigators aim to analyze the feasibility of awake laryngoscopy and intubations on patients placed under hypnosis alone.

Description:

Awake intubation is a recommended safety procedure in specific cases where the intubation or ventilation before general anesthesia is at risk.

Numerous techniques to allow awake intubation have been described, such as pure awake technique, local anesthetics or intravenous sedation for example.

Hypnosis is used for various operating room techniques and surgeries. The investigators aim to analyze the feasibility of awake laryngoscopy and intubations on patients placed under hypnosis alone.

Once patient will consent to be enrolled in the study, the same physician, trained in hypnosis, will accompany the patient in the operating room and place him into a hypnotic state. Once this hypnotic state is achieved, an oro-tracheal laryngoscopy will be performed with an Airtraq videolaryngoscope by an experienced anesthetist, specialised in the management of the difficult airway. If conditions allow it, the laryngoscopy will be followed by an oro-tracheal intubation.

A questionnaire assessing objective and subjective criteria from the patient and from the airway specialist will be collected.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: September 25, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: September 25, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• adults

• american society of anesthesiology classification 1-3

• understanding of french language

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of difficult intubation

• patient refusal

• deafness

• uncomfortable with french language understanding

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nasal Obstruction

Intervention

Procedure:
• laryngoscopy under hypnosis
patient will be put in an hypnotic state before performing a laryngoscopy followed by oro-tracheal intubation

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Dpt of Anesthesiology, University of Lausanne CHUV	Lausanne	VD

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Lausanne Hospitals

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of participants in which laryngoscopy is possible under hypnosis	laryngoscopy is feasible under hypnosis alone	60 minutes
Secondary	Number of participants in which intubation is possible under hypnosis	intubation is feasible under hypnosis alone	60 minutes
Secondary	comfort assessed by patient	assessment of comfort on scale 1-5	60 minutes
Secondary	comfort assessed by doctor	assessment of comfort on scale 1-5	60 minutes