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Difficult Intubation and Tongue Protrusion

NCT02679027 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 223

Last updated 2016-08-16

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Summary

Objectives: The aim of study is to determine the possible usage of tongue movements out of the mouth in the prediction of difficult intubation.

Method: Two hundred twenty three patients undergoing abdominal surgery with general anesthesia between 2014 and 2015 were enrolled in this study. Difficult intubation was evaluated using the intubation difficulty scale (IDS) score. All intubations were performed by anesthesiologist to eliminate the differences among the anesthesiologists' experiences. IDS score were evaluated by anesthesiologists who had no idea about the measurements of the tongue movements and performed laryngeal intubation in all patients.

To define the tongue movements, horizontal lines were used. Horizontal line were passing through the mid points of mandible and upper lip height. Patients were asked to protrude tongue maximally and upward (PTMU), to protrude tongue maximally and downward (PTMD) in anatomical neutral position which was sitting down on a chair.

Conditions

  • Difficult Intubation, Tongue Mobility

Interventions

OTHER

Protrude tongue maximally and upward (PTMU)

The horizontal line was passing through the mid points of the distance between subnasale to stomion (upper lip height). Patients were asked to protrude tongue maximally and upward (PTMU).

OTHER

Protrude tongue maximally and downward (PTMD)

The horizontal line was passing through the mid points of the distance between stomion to mentum (mandible height). Patients were asked to protrude tongue maximally and downward (PTMD).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Trakya University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-11-30
Completion
2015-12-31

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