New Devices to Measure the Intracuff Pressure

Joseph D. Tobias

Status: Completed

Conditions: Patients Intubated With a Cuffed Endotracheal Tube

Treatments: Device: Syringe device

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02202798

IRB13-00741

Details and patient eligibility

About

Over the past 5 years, there has been a change in clinical practice with the use of cuffed instead of uncuffed endotracheal tubes in infants and children. Two manufacturing companies have recently introduced syringe-like devices to the market which allow the measurement of the intracuff pressure. This study proposes to prospectively compare the intracuff pressure from these devices with the gold standard technique (manometer).

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or younger, undergoing a procedure requiring endotracheal intubation with a cuffed ETT.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

400 participants in 1 patient group

Syringe device

Description:

Endotracheal tube cuff pressure measured by 2 new syringe devices.

Treatment:

Device: Syringe device