Airway Ultrasound Assessment in the Prediction of Difficult Airway

Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de la Fundación Jiménez Díaz

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Anesthesia Intubation Complication; Airway Complication of Anesthesia

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Ultrasound test

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04816435

FJD-ECOVAD-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess whether the thickness of pre-tracheal fat, greater than 28 mm, and measured by ultrasound, constitutes a reliable parameter in the prediction of a difficult airway.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients risk ASA I-IV
• Non-urgent surgery under general anesthesia with orotracheal intubation
• Acceptance to participate and grant written consent

Exclusion criteria

• Urgent surgery
• Patients with a history of craniocervical pathology (trauma, tumor, malformations)
• Pregnancy
• Patient Refusal