A Comparison of the C-mac and Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Airway; Intubation

Treatments: Device: Karl Storz C-MAC; Device: Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02210338

sghan-cb01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to determine the better device to facilitate intubation in patients with a limited neck movement and small mouth opening. This may help anesthesiology as well as emergency medicine practitioners and departments to decide when choosing between these two conceptually similar device. The hypothesis to be tested is that the C-MAC® is more superior when compared to the Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope in success of intubation, time to intubation and complication rate in patients with a fixed cervical collar.

Enrollment: 64 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia who require endotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with history of previous difficult endotracheal intubation
• Patients with two or more predictors of difficult mask ventilation or difficult intubation or the combination of both
• Patients with ASA (American Society of Anesthesiologists) grading of III and above are excluded from the study, as well as patients with 2 or more predictors for difficult mask ventilation or difficult intubation or the combination of both.
• Patients needing a rapid sequence induction for rapid securement of the airway
• Pregnant women
• Patients below the age of 21 years old
• Patients unfit to give consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Karl Storz C-MAC

Experimental group

Description:

Intubation of patient using the Karl Storz C-MAC video laryngoscope

Treatment:

Device: Karl Storz C-MAC

Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope

Experimental group

Description:

Intubation of patient using Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope

Treatment:

Device: Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope