Out-of-Hospital Randomized Comparison of Video-assisted Endotracheal Intubation

University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubation Intratracheal; Emergency Treatment; Airway Management

Treatments: Device: Intubation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01635660

ANKIEL-VLS-2012-CAV

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research project examines the effectiveness of different video laryngoscopes in a out-of-hospital emergency intubation. Since in preclinical airway management severe incidents with esophageal failures of intubation may partly happen or rather endotracheal Intubation may completely fail, it is of great importance to evaluate alternative ways of endotracheal intubation in out-of-hospital emergency medicine. Video laryngoscopy has been proven in everyday clinical practice and may clinically be superior in most situations when compared to endotracheal Intubation using a conventional laryngoscope. No data exist, if different video laryngoscope types perform differently in the out-of-hospital setting. The investigators hypothesize that there would be no difference with regard to intubation time, intubation success, and intubation morbidity between different models of video laryngoscopes.

Enrollment: 182 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adult emergency patients, age 18 years and older for whom a preclinical emergency intubation is necessary

Exclusion criteria

• Age under 18 years
• Laryngoscopy according to the algorithm of airway management not being indicated

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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182 participants in 3 patient groups

C-MAC System

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Intubation

AP Advance

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Intubation

King Vision

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Intubation