Glossopharyngeal Nerve Blockade for Awake Videolaryngoscope Assisted Endotracheal Intubation in the Morbidly Obese

Royal Victoria Hospital, Canada

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Gagging

Treatments: Other: placebo; Other: lidocaine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01791439

11-201-SDR

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators wish to determine if application of 2% lidocaine soaked gauze to the peritonsillar pillars will decrease the amount of gagging caused by awake videolaryngocope assisted tracheal intubation in the morbidly obese.

Enrollment: 24 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• morbid obese patients scheduled for bariatric surgery, with a planned awake intubation.

Exclusion criteria

• inability to communicate in English or french
• allergies to any study drugs
• any patient with an American society of anesthesiologists score of 4 or more

Trial design

24 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Lidocaine

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this arm will have gauze soaked with lidocaine applied to the peritonsillar pillars.

Treatment:

Other: lidocaine

Saline

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Application of saline to the glossopharyngeal nerve.

Treatment:

Other: placebo