Intubation During Spinal Immobilization

Medical University of Warsaw

Status: Completed

Conditions: Endotracheal Intubation

Treatments: Device: Standard endotracheal tube; Device: C-MAC

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02733536

23.01.2017.IRB

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim was to evaluate the performance of the C-MAC compared with Macintosh when performed in patients with immobilized cervical spine by unexperienced physicians.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• give voluntary consent to participate in the study
• limited experience (<5 intubations) with "real-life" intubation using direct laryngoscopy
• novice phhysicians

Exclusion criteria

• not meet the above criteria
• practice with any videolaryngoscopy
• wrist or low back diseases
• pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 3 patient groups

Scenario A

Experimental group

Description:

manikin with normal standard airway

Treatment:

Device: C-MAC

Device: Standard endotracheal tube

Scenario B

Experimental group

Description:

Cervical immobilization using a standard Patriot cervical extraction collar (Oessur Americas, Foothill Ranch, CA, USA), applied to the manikin's neck by an instructor.

Treatment:

Device: C-MAC

Device: Standard endotracheal tube

Scenario C

Experimental group

Description:

Cervical immobilization using a vacuum mattress (Ferno-Washington, Inc. Wilmington, OH, USA), applied to the manikin's neck by an instructor

Treatment:

Device: C-MAC

Device: Standard endotracheal tube