Adequate Bending Angle of a Lightwand

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tracheal Intubation

Treatments: Procedure: bending angle of a lightwand

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03693235

30-2018-44

Details and patient eligibility

About

For tracheal intubation with a lightwand, adequate bending angle was not exactly investigated. The purpose of the study is compare three bending angles of lightwands for safe and efficient tracheal intubation.

Full description

Lightwands are very useful device for difficult airway management due to small moth opening, weak teeth, and cervical spine instability. Experienced clinicians use a lightwand while bending it adequately. However, there has been not previous studies to investigate the adequate angle to bend it.

This randomized controlled trial is to compare three angles (70, 80, and 90 degrees) as bending angle of lightwands for safe and efficient tracheal intubation in cases which require the use of lightwands.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who require use of a lightwand for tracheal tubes (i.e. small mouth opening, weak teeth, cervical spine instability)

Exclusion criteria

• patients who refuse to participate the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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66 participants in 3 patient groups

70 degrees

Experimental group

Description:

During tracheal intubation using a lightwand, the tracheal tube combined with a lightwand will be bent by 70 degrees.

Treatment:

Procedure: bending angle of a lightwand

80 degrees

Experimental group

Description:

During tracheal intubation using a lightwand, the tracheal tube combined with a lightwand will be bent by 80 degrees.

Treatment:

Procedure: bending angle of a lightwand

90 degrees

Experimental group

Description:

During tracheal intubation using a lightwand, the tracheal tube combined with a lightwand will be bent by 90 degrees.

Treatment:

Procedure: bending angle of a lightwand