Airway Ultrasound Prediction and Correlation

Vidya Raman

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Difficult Airway; Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Treatments: Procedure: Ultrasound; Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03313947

IRB17-00436

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a novel approach to assess the use of ultrasound to support the identification of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) on a screening questionnaire, and potentially to predict a difficult pediatric airway. The investigators hope to determine if a combination of simple bedside clinical tests can be used to identify OSAS in patients who present for surgery with clinical signs of OSAS but without a formal polysomnography.

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 12 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All children presenting for surgery at NCH ranging in age from 3-12 years

Exclusion criteria

• Parent/ patient refusal to participate in study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 3 patient groups

Difficult Airway

Other group

Description:

Ultrasound to measure hyo-mental distance, neutral (Frankfort) position, maximal extended neck position to calculate ratio, width of the tongue between the lingual arteries, and tonsillar size (bilateral).

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound

Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Other group

Description:

Ultrasound to measure hyo-mental distance, neutral (Frankfort) position, maximal extended neck position to calculate ratio, width of the tongue between the lingual arteries, and tonsillar size (bilateral).

Treatment:

Procedure: Ultrasound

Predictive Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Other group

Description:

The following 6 questions will be asked during the preoperative visit: 1. While sleeping, does your child snore more than half the time? 2. While sleeping, does your child always snore? 3. Have you ever seen your child stop breathing during the night? 4. Does your child occasionally wet the bed? 5. Did your child stop growing at a normal rate at any time since birth? 6. Is your child overweight

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire