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Balloon Palpation vs Loss of Resistance Syringe for Safe Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure; a Randomized Clinical Trial

NCT02294422 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 178

Last updated 2015-06-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Tracheal Damage

Interventions

DEVICE

PBP

the pilot balloon is continuously palpated o felt for adequate pressure as its being inflated.

DEVICE

LOR

DEVICE

Aneroid manometer

The pilot balloon is attached onto the manometer and cuff pressures are raed off from the gauge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Makerere University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fred Bulamba, masters · Anaesthesiologist

  • Kintu Andrew, Fellowship · Lecturer

  • Arthur Kwizera, Masters · Lecturer

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-04-30
Primary Completion
2015-02-28
Completion
2015-02-28

Countries

  • Uganda

Study Locations

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