Comparison of Videolaryngoscopy and Direct Laryngoscopy in Pediatric Airway Management (LearnaBlade)

Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Videolaryngoscopy; Airway Management

Treatments: Device: King Vision aBlade; Device: direct laryngoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03571295

Learn a Blade 1.0

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators intended to evaluate first success rate and learning curve of trainee anesthetists performing direct and videolaryngoscopy in pediatric airway management.

Full description

After obtaining written informed consent of 10 trainee anesthetists with non less than 24 months and not exceeding 60 months residency, use of the King Vision aBlade videolaryngoscope was demonstrated by presenting a 2 min instruction video. First endotracheal intubation by each trainee anesthetist was randomly allocated to either direct (DL) or King Vision aBlade videolaryngoscopy (KingVL). Then order of laryngoscopy type was alternating at least each trainee anesthetists performed 10 DL and 10 KingVL endotracheal intubations.

Enrollment: 210 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 10 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA 1 to 2
• written informed consent from both legal guardians
• children who were scheduled for nonemergency surgery with requirement of endotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

• known or predicted difficult airway
• increased risk for pulmonary aspiration

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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210 participants in 2 patient groups

videolaryngoscopy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: King Vision aBlade

direct laryngoscopy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: direct laryngoscopy