GlideScope Groove vs. Standard GlideScope: A Non-inferiority Study

Lawson Health Research Institute

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Intubation, Orotracheal

Treatments: Device: Control: Standard GlideScope; Device: GlideScope Groove

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01489605

18477

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to being intubated with either the GlideScope Groove video-laryngoscope or the standard GlideScope video-laryngoscope.

Full description

See above. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Any adult patient booked for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation.

Exclusion criteria

1. Any patient with cervical spine abnormalities.
2. Any patients with known or probable difficult airways.
3. Any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

GlideScope Groove

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be intubated using the GlideScope Groove device. (Verathon)

Treatment:

Device: GlideScope Groove

Control: Standard GlideScope

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control: Patients will be intubated using standard practice, a standard GlideScope (Verathon)

Treatment:

Device: Control: Standard GlideScope