Direct Laryngoscopy During Cervical Trauma

International Institute of Rescue Research and Education

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Trauma

Treatments: Device: MAC; Device: MIL; Device: McCoy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02292693

ETI/2014/18

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to compare time, success rates of different laryngoscope blades for intubation with an immobilized cervical spine in a standardized pediatric manikin model.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• give voluntary consent to participate in the study
• minimum 1 year of work experience in emergency medicine
• experienced emergency medicine personnel (physicians, nurses, paramedics)

Exclusion criteria

• not meet the above criteria
• wrist or low back diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 1 patient group

intubation with immobilized cervical spine

Experimental group

Description:

endotracheal intubation with immobilized cervical spine

Treatment:

Device: MIL

Device: MAC

Device: McCoy