Accuracy of Using the CPAP Technique to Eliminate Air Leak and Prevent Excessive Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressures

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgical Patients Intubated With Cuffed ETT

Treatments: Other: Manometer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01384318

IRB11-00414

Details and patient eligibility

About

In common clinical practice, one means of ensuring an acceptable cuff pressure in endotracheal tubes (ETT) is to hold continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) of 20-25 cmH2O and inflate the cuff of the ETT until no gas leak is noted around the cuff. The purpose of this study is to validate this technique by checking the intracuff pressure using a manometer after the cuff is inflated using the CPAP technique.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having a cuffed ETT placed per treating anesthesiologist
• < 18 yrs of age.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

Cuffed ETT

Description:

Patients intubated with cuffed endotracheal tubes.

Treatment:

Other: Manometer