Airway Management for Trigeminal Thermal Coagulation

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Airway Management

Treatments: Other: Nasopharyngeal Tube

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01990599

1221/2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

Airway management of patients undergoing thermal coagulation of the Gasserian ganglion is very delicate. This is because of the specific operation site and moreover patients should recover quickly from anesthesia to follow verbal intraoperative commands of the surgeon. Endotracheal intubation or laryngeal mask of course hinders the patient from speaking. An obvious alternative airway management, as performed in this preliminary study, is a nasopharyngeal placed tube.

The purpose of the present study is to objectify the gas exchange in patients during this new ventilation technique.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing thermal coagulation of the Gasserian ganglion

Exclusion criteria

• Body weight over 100 kg
• Recurrent nasal bleeding
• Patients suffering from reflux disease
• Additional risk of aspiration (e.g. hernia diaphragmalis)

Trial design

5 participants in 1 patient group

Nasopharyngeal Tube

Other group

Description:

Every patient undergoing trigeminal thermal coagulation of the Gasserian ganglion will be ventilated by a nasopharyngeal placed ID 5mm tube during the whole neurosurgical intervention.

Treatment:

Other: Nasopharyngeal Tube