Tracheal Damage Clinical Trial
Official title:
Achieving Recommended Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure; A Randomized Control Trial Comparing Loss of Resistance Syringe to Pilot Balloon Palpation.
This study is aimed at establishing whether use of loss of resistance syringe (LOR) that is
traditionally used for identifying epidural space, is a better method for providing safe
cuff pressures in adults intubated with cuffed endotracheal tubes. The conventional method
is the use of pilot ballon palpation (PBP) to approximate cuff pressures but this is
associated with airway damage.
The study hypothesis states that both the loss of resistance syringe method and the pilot
balloon palpation methods achieve the recommended endotracheal tube intracuff pressures.
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Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Prevention