Algorithms in a Simulated Difficult Intubation Scenario

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Airway Management

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00951769

09/H1001/3

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a non-human study, conducted in a simulation environment, with simulator manikins, and volunteers from anaesthesia. Trainees in their first 2 years of anaesthetics training will be randomised to a control group, a group following the Difficult Airway Society UK's Guidelines and the Australian Difficult Airway management algorithm. A simulated difficult airway will be created during the induction of anaesthesia. The investigators will examine adherence to guidelines, which would have been provided to participants before the experiment, as well as compare their performance with the guidelines.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Anaesthetists in first 2 years of training

Exclusion criteria

• Those who decline invitation to participate

Trial design

30 participants in 3 patient groups

Control,

Description:

Control

DAS: Difficult Airway Society, UK

Description:

DAS difficult airway algorithm

Australian

Description:

Australian difficult airway algorithm