Learning Curves of Intubation for Simulated Difficult Airway Scenarios by Manikin: Comparison of Combined Pentax Airwayscope-fiberoptic Bronchoscope and Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Alone

Ajou University School of Medicine

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Difficult Airway

Treatments: Device: manikin; Device: pentax-airwayscope; Device: fiberoptic bronchoscope

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02811562

AJIRB-DEV-EXP-16-116

Details and patient eligibility

About

Acquisition of knowledge and skills pertinent to the use of fibreoptic endoscopy is an important part of training in various medical and surgical specialties such as anesthesiology, emergency medicine, otolaryngology, and pulmonary medicine. It has been shown that there is a wide variation in the learning curves of residents and the number of attempts to achieve proficiency in performing upper airway endoscopy. recently, combined use of fiberoptic bronchoscope and videolaryngoscope has been suggested to be a good alternative. So, the aim of this study is to compare the number of attempt to achieve proficiency using fiberoptic bronchoscope alone or fiberoptic bronchoscope with Pentax-AWS.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• resident in Department of anesthesiology

Exclusion criteria

• resident who has an experience of successful fiberoptic bronchoscopic intubation in difficult case

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

fiberoptic bronchoscope

Active Comparator group

Description:

Tracheal intubation in manikin using fiberoptic bronchoscope

Treatment:

Device: fiberoptic bronchoscope

Device: manikin

fiberoptic bronchoscope with pentax-airwayscope

Experimental group

Description:

Tracheal intubation in manikin using fiberoptic bronchoscope with pentax-airwayscope

Treatment:

Device: fiberoptic bronchoscope

Device: pentax-airwayscope

Device: manikin