Comparison of the Vocal Cord Imaging Techniques After Thyroidectomy

Diskapi Teaching and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thyroid Nodule

Treatments: Device: fiberoptic nasal laringoscopy; Device: ultrasonograph; Device: direct laringoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02410928

USG-Vokal cord

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recurrent nerve palsy is a complication of thyroidectomy. Most surgeons want to visualize the vocal cords after tyroidectomy. The aim is to compare the direct laringoscopy, videolaringoscopy, fiberoptic laringoscopy and ultrasonography methods in terms of efficacy, duration and hemodynamic responses during the procedure.

Full description

The vocal cord will be visualised after the extubation with one of the following methods:

direct laringoscopy videolaringoscopy fiberoptic laringoscopy ultrasonography The of efficacy of the method (0= not able to visualize the vocal cords, 1= the vocal cords were visualized) duration of the procedure and hemodynamic responses (heart rate, mean arterial pressure) during the procedure will be compared between the groups.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Benign or malignant thyroid pathology

Exclusion criteria

• anticipated difficult intubation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 3 patient groups

fiberoptic nasal laringoscopy

Experimental group

Description:

the vocal cords ill be visualized with fiberoptic nasal laringoscopy

Treatment:

Device: fiberoptic nasal laringoscopy

ultrasonography

Experimental group

Description:

the vocal cords ill be visualized with ultrasonography

Treatment:

Device: ultrasonograph

Direct laringoscopy

Active Comparator group

Description:

the vocal cords ill be visualized with direct laringoscopy

Treatment:

Device: direct laringoscopy