Identification of Airway Structures Necessary for Airway Access Via the Skin

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Upper Airway Obstruction

Treatments: Behavioral: identification of the airway from the distal end; Behavioral: identification of the airway by from the cranial end

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02613429

Seventh floor 15/1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Literature shows that anaesthetists have a low success-rate when trying to access the airway percutaneously in case of failed ventilation and intubation.

The study will investigate anaesthetists ability to locate the trachea and the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage in patients, using different methods including application of ultrasonography.

Full description

Literature shows that anaesthetists have a low success-rate when trying to access the airway percutaneously in case of failed ventilation and intubation.

The researchers will investigate anaesthetists ability to locate the trachea and the thyroid cartilage and the cricoid cartilage of a healthy subject with different methods including application of ultrasonography.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Anaesthesiologist

Exclusion criteria

• unvillingnes to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

Cranial horizontal

Active Comparator group

Description:

identification of the airway by from the cranial end. Marking of the airway, including the cricothyroid membrane, on the skin, by starting the examination from the cranial end at the level of the thyroid catilage , horizontally and thereafter moving caudally

Treatment:

Behavioral: identification of the airway by from the cranial end

caudal longitudinal

Active Comparator group

Description:

identification of the airway from the distal end. Marking of the airway, including the cricothyroid membrane, on the skin, by starting the examination caudally, and then moving cranially

Treatment:

Behavioral: identification of the airway from the distal end