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Preoperative Fibroscopy as a Predictor of the Difficulty of Laryngoscopy and Intubation

NCT02671877 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2017-03-03

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Summary

The aim of this study is the evaluation of preoperative transnasal fiberoscopy, as a possible predictor of difficult laryngoscopy and intubation during elective general anesthesia in an adult population.

Transnasal fibercoscopy is a minimally invasive examination and is routinely performed during ENT evaluation; on the other hand, current strategies used to predict the ease of intubation are still not sufficiently sensitive and specific, and an unexpected difficult or failed intubation at the induction of general anesthesia is a seriuos, and potentially fatal, emergency in anesthesia.

In literature, a correlation between anatomical and functional parameters highlighted by fiberoscopy and difficulty of laryngoscopy and intubation has never been demonstrated nor indagated.

If proven, this might give the Anesthestiologist further information about the expected difficulty of laryngoscopy and intubation, guiding a different - and hopefully safer - anesthesiological strategy.

Conditions

  • Tracheal Intubation Morbidity

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Transnasal fiberoscopy

Minimally invasive exploration ot the upper airways, performed in an awake or minimally sedated patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • IRCCS San Raffaele

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Beretta Luigi, Full Professor, MD · IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2017-03-01

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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