Cuff Pressure in Patients: Manometer vs Invasive Pressure Monitoring Setup

Senthil G. Krishna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anesthesia Intubation Complication

Treatments: Device: Cuffed endotracheal tube

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01885793

IRB13-00107

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective study looking at ways to measure the cuff pressure of cuffed endotracheal tubes (ETTs). We will be comparing a hand-held manometer (MM) to the transducer of an invasive pressure monitoring setup (IPMS), which is commonly used for arterial or central venous pressure monitoring. The investigators previously did this study in vivo with ETTs in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) "tracheas" and we found that there is good correlation between the pressure readings using the MM and the IPMS. The purpose of the current study is to validate the in vitro findings in clinical situations.

Enrollment: 220 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Intubation of trachea with a cuffed endotracheal tube.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

220 participants in 1 patient group

Cuffed endotracheal tube

Description:

Surgical patients who require endotracheal intubation with a cuffed endotracheal tube (ETT).

Treatment:

Device: Cuffed endotracheal tube