Comparison of Early Endotracheal Tube Insertion With GlideScope Use

Endotracheal Intubation Clinical Trial

Official title:

Comparison of Early Endotracheal Tube Insertion With GlideScope Use

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01564082
• Other study ID #: 18855
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 6, 2012
• Last updated: April 9, 2015
• Start date: April 2012
• Est. completion date: March 2013

Study information

• Verified date: April 2015
• Source: Lawson Health Research Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Patients presenting for elective surgery will be randomized to having the breathing tube inserted partly into the throat prior to GlideScope insertion, or having it inserted fully after GlideScope insertion.

Description:

Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to having the Early Endotracheal Tube (ETT) inserted into the pharynx prior to GlideScope insertion and then having the ETT advanced under GlideScope guidance into the trachea, or, being intubated in the standard fashion with the GlideScope being inserted first and having the ETT then advanced via the pharynx into the trachea. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 160
• Est. completion date: March 2013
• Est. primary completion date: March 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 85 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Any adult patient booked for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation.

2. Any operator who has performed = 20 GlideScope intubations.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Any patient in whom the use of the GlideScope is contraindicated in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.

2. Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities.

3. Any patients with known or probable difficult airways.

4. Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Endotracheal Intubation

Intervention

Device:
• ETT First (GlideScope)
Patients will have the endotracheal tube (ETT) introduced into the pharynx under direct vision prior to GlideScope insertion. The ETT will then be advanced under GlideScope guidance into the trachea.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	London Health Sciences Center	London	Ontario
Canada	St. Joseph's Health Care	London	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lawson Health Research Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time to Intubation	Duration of intubation of the patient	Day 1	No
Secondary	Ease of intubation	Ease of intubation, measured on a Visual analog scale	Day 1	No
Secondary	Number of intubation attempts	Number of intubation attempts	Day 1	No
Secondary	Use of external laryngeal pressure	Use of external laryngeal pressure	Day 1	No
Secondary	Sore throat	Post operative sore throat, as rated by the patient.	Day 3	No