Do we Intubate Faster With the Videolaryngoscope?

Mongi Slim Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: General Anesthesia; Laryngoscopy

Treatments: Device: Intubation by videolaryngoscopy; Device: intubation by direct laryngoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05851664

Time to intubate VL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Aim of the study was to determine the impact of the videolaryngoscpe on the time needed to intubate.

This was a Prospective, randomized, simple blinded study. The participants intubated patients for surgery under general anesthesia either with direct laryngoscpy or with videolaryngoscopy.

Full description

Intubation on full stomach is at high risk of pulmonary suction. It must be quick, as this risk increases with the time needed to intubate. Videolaryngoscope (VL) is recommended in case of difficult airway. Yet, its interest in full stomach remains unclear, as the time needed to intubate with a VL is variable in literature. The Aim of the study was to determine the impact of the videolaryngoscpe on the time needed to intubate.

This was a Prospective, randomized, simple blinded study. The participants intubated patients for surgery under general anesthesia either with direct laryngoscpy or with videolaryngoscopy.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age > 18 years-old;
• ASA status 1 to 3;
• General anesthesia and intubation.

Exclusion criteria

• Difficult intubations criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Group Direct laryngoscopy (DL)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Group DL: intubated with direct laryngoscopy type Macintosh.

Treatment:

Device: intubation by direct laryngoscopy

Group vidéo Laryngoscopy (VL)

Experimental group

Description:

Group VL: intubated with a video laryngoscope type McGrath

Treatment:

Device: Intubation by videolaryngoscopy