Comparison of GlideScope Videolaryngoscopy to Direct Laryngoscopy for Nasal Intubation

Lawson Health Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nasal Intubation

Treatments: Device: GlideScope videolaryngoscope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00400972

R-06-467

HSREB 12719

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether nasal intubation assisted by GlideScope videolaryngoscopy is faster, easier, and less traumatic than nasal intubation with conventional direct laryngoscopy.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• any patient who is at least 18 years old
• patient requires nasal intubation for surgical indications
• operator has performed at least 10 prior GlideScope intubations (oral or nasal)

Exclusion criteria

• cervical spine abnormalities
• known difficult airway
• requires rapid sequence induction
• any other patient in whom the attending anesthesiologist believes usage of the GlideScope is contraindicated

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind