Comparison of Conventional GlideScope to Single-Use GlideScope Cobalt for Orotracheal Intubation

Lawson Health Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Device: Single-use Glidescope videolaryngoscope; Device: Conventional (reusable) Glidescope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00459797

R-07-040

13025

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to being intubated with either the conventional (reusable) GlideScope videolaryngoscope or the single-use GlideScope videolaryngoscope. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any patient who is ≥ 18 yrs. coming for elective surgery.
• Endotracheal tube is indicated for the procedure in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.
• Any operator who has performed ≥ 10 GlideScope intubations.

Exclusion criteria

• Any patient in whom the use of the GlideScope is contraindicated in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.
• Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities.
• Any patients with known or probable difficult airways (this rare occurrence is unlikely to be evenly distributed between the groups and could skew the data).
• Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Conventional Glidescope

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Conventional (reusable) Glidescope

Single-use Glidescope

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Single-use Glidescope videolaryngoscope