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Airway Scope and Macintosh Laryngoscope for Tracheal Intubation in Patients Lying on the Ground

NCT00980590 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2023-06-29

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Summary

Pre-hospital intubation is often required in sub-optimal conditions, such as in patients lying on the ground. Direct laryngoscopy and intubation of a patient lying supine on the ground is difficult because the intubator's head is far above the head of the patient. It is thus tricky to align the intubator's visual axis with the patient's tracheal axis. The Airway Scope is a new laryngoscope designed to facilitate intubation without requiring alignment of the oral, pharyngeal, and tracheal axes. We thus tested the hypothesis that the intubation with the Airway Scope is faster than the Macintosh laryngoscope in subjects lying on the ground.

Conditions

  • Intubation

Interventions

DEVICE

Airway Scope

Tracheal intubation by Airway Scope

DEVICE

Macintosh Laryngoscope

Tracheal intubation by Macintosh Laryngoscope

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Cleveland Clinic

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Daniel I Sessler, MD · The Cleveland Clinic

  • Ryu Komatsu, M.D. · Kosei Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-02-28
Completion
2009-02-28

Countries

  • Japan

Study Locations

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