Assessment of Pediatric Challenging Airway

Zagazig University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Airway Complication of Anesthesia

Treatments: Device: ultrasound device

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06443424

pocus in pediatric airway

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of these Observational study is to learn about pediatric airway the main question to answer is:

1-Is using point-of-care ultrasound provide an easy, early, and accurate preoperative assessment of the challenging pediatric airway and the endotracheal tube sizing more than traditional methods.

Enrollment: 101 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 4 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient's parents' consent.
• Age:from one to 4 years old.
• Both sexes (male and female).
• BMI with in (5-85%) of body mass index of the child birth of same age and sex.
• Physical status: American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I and II.
• Type of operation: elective surgery under general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

• Pre-existing airway malformations or pathology like facial or cervical fracture
• Deformity of the airway anatomy [by masses or tumors].
• Pathology of the airway [edema, burn and arthritis].
• Anticipated difficult airway