Emergency Front of Neck Airway in Children Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Modified Rabbit Training Model for Establishing an Emergency Front of Neck Airway in Children
A "cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate" (CICO) situation is rare in paediatric anaesthesia, but
can always occur in children under certain emergency situations. There is a paucity of
literature on specific procedures for securing an emergency invasive airway in children under
the age of 6 years. A modified emergency Front Of Neck Access (eFONA) technique using a
rabbit cadaver model was developed to teach invasive airway protection in a CICO situation in
children.
After watching an instructional video of our eFONA technique (tracheotomy, initial intubation
with Frova catheter over which an endotracheal tube is inserted), 29 anaesthesiologists will
perform two separate attempts on rabbit cadavers. The primary outcome is the success rate and
the performance time overall and in subgroups of trained and untrained participants.
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