Verification of Endotracheal Tube Placement by Ultrasound in the Obese Patient

Obesity Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01227486
• Other study ID #: disb-01-10
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 20, 2010
• Last updated: November 23, 2010
• Start date: October 2010

Study information

• Verified date: November 2010
• Source: Bispebjerg Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: The Committees on Biomedical Research Ethichs for the Capital Region of Denmark
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether verification of correct tube placement after endotracheal intubation in the obese patient can be conducted as fast with ultrasound as with the conventional method of combined auscultation and capnography.

The investigators hypothesize that ultrasound is a faster method for verifying correct endotracheal tube placement in the obese patient than combined auscultation and capnography.

Description:

Both verification methods are conducted in all patients and patients act as their own control

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Planned for bariatric surgery in general anaesthesia

• Planned for endotracheal intubation

• BMI above 30

Exclusion Criteria:

• Predicted difficult airway in the pre-anaesthesia airway evaluation.

• Unpredicted difficult airway during induction of anaesthesia where assistance is needed by the investigators.

Study Design

Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Intubation, Intratracheal
• Obesity

Intervention

Device:
• Ultrasound
Ultrasound scan just proximal to the suprasternal notch during intubation and ultrasound scan of both lungs during ventilation

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Department of Anaesthesiology, Bariatric section. Copenhagen University Hospital Glostrup	Glostrup

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Bispebjerg Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Difference in time to correct verification of endotracheal tube placement between ultrasound and combined auscultation and capnography		0 to 1 hour	No
Secondary	Difference in time to correct verification of endotracheal tube placement between ultrasound and auscultation alone		0 to 1 hour	No