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Video Versus Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation in Pediatric Surgery

NCT07495436 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 5562

Last updated 2026-04-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Tracheal intubation in paediatric patients is a high-risk procedure in which failure to achieve successful intubation on the first attempt is associated with an increased risk of complications, including hypoxaemia and airway trauma. Videolaryngoscopes have been increasingly adopted in clinical practice because they improve glottic visualisation; however, evidence of their benefit in paediatric patients remains inconsistent.

The VIDEOKIDS trial is a large, pragmatic, international, multicentre, randomised controlled trial designed to compare videolaryngoscopy with direct laryngoscopy as the initial technique for tracheal intubation in paediatric patients undergoing surgery under general anaesthesia. The primary objective is to determine whether videolaryngoscopy increases the rate of successful intubation on the first attempt compared with direct laryngoscopy.

Conditions

  • Tracheal Intubation
  • Videolaryngoscopy
  • General Anesthesia
  • Difficult Airway Intubation

Interventions

DEVICE

Videolaryngoscope

For patients assigned to the videolaryngoscope Group, the operator will use a video laryngoscope on the first laryngoscopy attempt.

DEVICE

Direct Laryngoscope

For patients assigned to the laryngoscope Group, the operator will use a Macintosh laryngoscope on the first laryngoscopy attempt.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Manuel Taboada Muñiz · University Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
0 Days
Max Age
16 Hours
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-05-01
Primary Completion
2027-12-30
Completion
2027-12-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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