Jaw-thrust on Postoperative Sore Throat

Keimyung University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: General Anesthesia

Treatments: Procedure: Control; Procedure: Two-handed jaw thrust

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03568279

JTPOST

Details and patient eligibility

About

This investigation is planned to compare the incidence and severity of postoperative sore throat according to the use of two-handed jaw thrust maneuver in patients undergoing endotracheal intubation for general anesthesia.

Enrollment: 96 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA I-III
• Patients scheduled for general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation

Exclusion criteria

• Difficult airway
• Mallampatti scores greater than 2
• Recent sore throat
• Cervical spine disease
• Recent upper respiratory infection
• Recent analgesics
• History of head and neck surgery
• Friable teeth
• Multiple intubation attempts

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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96 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

The attending anesthesiologist provided intubation without two-handed jaw thrust.

Treatment:

Procedure: Control

Two-hand

Experimental group

Description:

The attending anesthesiologist provided intubation with two-handed jaw thrust.

Treatment:

Procedure: Two-handed jaw thrust