Comparison of the Videolaryngoscopes With Manual In-line Stabilization

Ajou University School of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Oral Surgery; Maxillofacial Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: MILS; Device: Macintosh laryngoscope; Device: McGrath videolaryngoscope; Device: Pentax AWS videolaryngoscope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02647606

AJIRB-MED-DE1-15-334

Details and patient eligibility

About

Videolaryngoscope is useful to improve the laryngeal view, especially during difficult intubation. There are several kinds of videolaryngoscopes and it is applicable during nasotracheal intubation. In this study, the investigators will compare the McGrath videolaryngoscope and Pentax-AWS with Macintosh laryngoscope for nasotracheal intubation in patients with manual in-line stabilization.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• oral or maxillofacial surgery
• ASA class I, II

Exclusion criteria

• anticipated difficult intubation
• necessity for rapid sequence induction
• cervical spine injury
• bleeding tendency

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

120 participants in 3 patient groups

McGrath Group

Experimental group

Description:

MgGrath videolaryngoscope will be used for nasotracheal intubation with MILS

Treatment:

Procedure: MILS

Device: McGrath videolaryngoscope

Pentax-AWS Group

Experimental group

Description:

Pentax-AWS videolaryngoscope will be used for nasotracheal intubation with MILS

Treatment:

Procedure: MILS

Device: Pentax AWS videolaryngoscope

Macintosh Laryngoscope Group

Experimental group

Description:

Macintosh Laryngoscope will be used for nasotracheal intubation with MILS

Treatment:

Device: Macintosh laryngoscope

Procedure: MILS