Airtraq Versus Conventional Laryngoscopy in Children

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: General Anesthesia; Children; Intubation

Treatments: Device: Airtraq laryngoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01212536

CH/2009/3387

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to compare the new paediatric Airtraq indirect optical laryngoscope with conventional direct laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation in a randomised crossover study during routine anaesthesia. The investigators hypothesise that the Airtraq is as good as conventional laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation of infants and children. This will be an equivalence rather than a non-inferiority study.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 6 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children less than 6 years of age, in whom a size 2.5 - 5.5 tracheal tube would be considered suitable.
• Classified by the American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) as grade 1-3.
• Scheduled for surgery under general anaesthesia, and in whom tracheal intubation and neuromuscular blocking drugs are planned to be used.

Exclusion criteria

• inability of patient or parents to understand the study or consent process
• known or suspected difficult airway
• ASA 4 and above

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional

No Intervention group

Description:

conventional laryngoscopy for intubation

Airtraq

Experimental group

Description:

laryngoscopy with Airtraq for intubation

Treatment:

Device: Airtraq laryngoscopy