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Anticipation of the Difficult Airway: the Preoperative Airway Assessment Form

NCT01037374 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 89

Last updated 2014-09-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to see if our experimental preoperative airway assessment form is a better indicator of difficult airway as compared to the anesthesia record that is presently used.

Conditions

  • Endotracheal Intubation Risk Assessment

Interventions

OTHER

Preoperative assessment form

(based on the american society of anesthesiologists)components of the form include: neck measurements; neck mobility; mallampati; wilson's test; pre-existing conditions; and predictions of difficult mask ventilation, supraglottic airway, laryngoscopy, intubation, and surgical airway.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research

    collaborator OTHER

  • The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carin A Hagberg, MD · University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center, Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-08-31
Primary Completion
2012-12-31
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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