Fiberoptic Intubation and Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation：Success Rate and Time in Untrained Medical Personnel

Second Military Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation Intubation

Treatments: Device: Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01129726

20100002

Light Guided (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fiberoptic Intubation is the preferred technique to difficult airway. However, when performed by untrained anesthesiologists, bronchoscopic intubation has a high rate of failure. We want to know if the Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation technique can improves the success rate and time for tracheal intubation performed by inexperienced anesthesiologists; whether this technique improves the success rate and for normal intubations when performed by inexperienced anesthesiologists as well is unknown. Therefore, the authors compared the success rate and time of Fiberoptic Intubation versus the Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation performed by anesthesiologists inexperienced in Fiberoptic Intubation.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• general anesthesia
• ASA I~II
• Mallampati Score grade I~II
• thyromental distance ≥6cm
• mouth-open ≥3cm
• body mass index (BMI) ≤30kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• neck and maxillofacial surgeries
• potential risks for regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration
• in pregnancy

Trial design

100 participants in 1 patient group

Intubation

Experimental group

Description:

Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation

Treatment:

Device: Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation