Intubation of Morbidly Obese Patients. A Clinical Trial, Comparing Glide Scope ® With Fastrach TM

Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubationtime; Intubationattempts; Morbidly Obese

Treatments: Device: Fastrach; Device: GlideScope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01237080

H-1-2010-058

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the GlideScope ® and the Fastrach TM for intubation of morbidly obese. Mainly we will try to clarify which of the instruments that produce the shortest intubationtime and lowest number of intubationattempts.

The hypothesis is that intubation would be 1) quicker and 2) with the lowest number of attempts, using the GlideScope®.

Full description

The number of obese people rises. Thus 25.2% of Danish 9th graders are obese. As a result, surgery and anesthesia in obese patients becomes more frequent. Several potential problems related to anesthesia in this patient group exists, including airway management and sufficient oxygenation.

Anaesthesia of obese patients are more likely to require intubation. In light of the foregoing, it is therefore important to find the methods that provide the fewest complications related to intubation. Therefore this study compare two instruments (Fastrach TM and GlideScope ®) to find out which of the methods that provides the best airway management, measured primarily in time and numbers of intubation attempts.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI >/= 35

Exclusion criteria

• need for crash induction.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Fastrach

Experimental group

Description:

50 persons beeing intubated using the Fastrach.

Treatment:

Device: Fastrach

GlideScope

Experimental group

Description:

50 persons beeing intubated using the GlideScope.

Treatment:

Device: GlideScope