Identification of Airway Structures Necessary for Airway Access Via the Skin

Upper Airway Obstruction Clinical Trial

Official title:

Identification of Airway Structures Necessary for Airway Access Via the Skin to be Used in Case of Failure to Maintain Oxygenation With Non-invasive Methods

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02613429
• Other study ID #: Seventh floor 15/1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 19, 2015
• Last updated: January 3, 2016
• Start date: November 2015
• Est. completion date: December 2015

Study information

• Verified date: January 2016
• Source: Rigshospitalet, Denmark
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Literature shows that anaesthetists have a low success-rate when trying to access the airway percutaneously in case of failed ventilation and intubation.

The study will investigate anaesthetists ability to locate the trachea and the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage in patients, using different methods including application of ultrasonography.

Description:

Literature shows that anaesthetists have a low success-rate when trying to access the airway percutaneously in case of failed ventilation and intubation.

The researchers will investigate anaesthetists ability to locate the trachea and the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage of a healthy subject with different methods including application of ultrasonography.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 42
• Est. completion date: December 2015
• Est. primary completion date: December 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Anaesthesiologist

Exclusion Criteria:

• unvillingnes to participate

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Diagnostic

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Airway Obstruction
• Upper Airway Obstruction

Intervention

Behavioral:
• identification of the airway by from the cranial end
The airway is identified with inspection and imaging technique (ultrasound) by placing the ultrasound transducer over the thyroid cartilage and from there moving distally
• identification of the airway from the distal end
The airway is identified with inspection and imaging technique (ultrasound) by placing the ultrasound transducer over the distal trachea and moving cranially

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	Rigshospitalet, department of anaesthesia	Copenhagen
Denmark	Rigshospitalet, section for anaesthesia for ENT and Maxillofacial surgery, section 3071	Copenhagen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	time to identify the structures necessary for percutaneous airway acess		two minutes after initiation of the attempt to identify the airway structures	No