Modified Magill Forceps Facilitating Nasal Intubation for Children Undergoing Dental Operations

Ain Shams University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Endotracheal Tube Wrongly Placed During Anesthetic Procedure

Treatments: Device: Magill forceps; Device: modified Magill forceps

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05513989

IRB00006379 MMF

Details and patient eligibility

About

compare between Magill forceps and modified pediatric Magill forceps for nasotracheal intubation (which method is easier and better?).

Full description

Group A One hundred and ten patients for whom modified pediatric Magill forceps was used to assist nasotracheal intubation.

Group B One hundred and ten patients for whom Magill forceps was used to assist nasotracheal intubation.

For each patient, intubation time, number of intubation attempts, hypoxia (recognized when oxygen saturation decreases below 94%), pharyngeal trauma, and need for corkscrewing will be recorded.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 8 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with the American Society of Anesthesiology physical status of 1 or 2
• Age 4 to 8 years old.
• Elective dental surgeries.

Exclusion criteria

• Parental refusal to consent (absolute contraindication),
• Patients with aspiration risk.
• Known upper airway abnormalities.
• Those having difficult airway.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

modified Magill forceps group

Active Comparator group

Description:

One hundred and ten patients for whom modified pediatric Magill forceps was used to assist nasotracheal intubation

Treatment:

Device: modified Magill forceps

Magill forceps group

Active Comparator group

Description:

One hundred and ten patients for whom Magill forceps was used to assist nasotracheal intubation.

Treatment:

Device: Magill forceps