Maintaining the Head Extension by an Assistant Decreases Dental Contact

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dental Contact During Direct Laryngoscopy

Treatments: Procedure: with assistant; Procedure: without assistant

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01427348

JHBahk_dental injury

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the head extension by an assistant decreases dental contact between laryngoscope blade and maxillary incisors during direct laryngoscopy

Enrollment: 68 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients undergoing surgery that requires general anesthesia

Exclusion criteria

• disease or injury of cervical spine
• dentoalveolar injury
• history of difficult intubation
• anatomical anomaly of face or airway

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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68 participants in 2 patient groups

with assistant

Experimental group

Description:

head extension by an assistant during direct laryngoscopy

Treatment:

Procedure: with assistant

without assistant

Active Comparator group

Description:

without the help of an assistant during direct laryngoscopy

Treatment:

Procedure: without assistant