An Evaluation of Efficacy of the GlideScope Cobalt Video Baton for Intubation on Children Weighing Less Than 10 Kilograms

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00935636

042009-046

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to collect relevant airway data using the GlideScope Cobalt Video Baton 1 and 2 for intubation in a large cohort of neonates and infants weighing 10 kg or less.

Full description

Neonates and infants requiring endotracheal intubation and in which the attending anesthesiologist decided to use the CGS-CVB will be included in this observational study. Data will be collected by one of the investigators or the research assistant/coordinator and recorded on a data sheet The data from these forms will be then entered by the investigator or research assistant/coordinator into a database maintained only for this study.

The decision of using the GS-CVB is at the discretion of the attending anesthesiologist. Consequently if consent would be required the anesthesiologist might feel compelled or biased to use the device against his will. This will also require that all possible patients's should be consented which will put a serious strain on the study personal.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 2 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Neonates, infants and children scheduled for surgical procedures under general anesthesia and requiring endotracheal intubation
• Patients age 0 - 2 years
• Weight up to 10 kg
• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I-III

Exclusion criteria

• Patients at risk of pulmonary aspiration,
• Increased intracranial pressure
• Those with congenital cardiac diseases or
• Those with hemodynamic instability