Predictors of Difficult Videolaryngoscopy

Hacettepe University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Videolaryngoscopy

Treatments: Device: Videolaryngoscopy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03495596

Videolaryngoscopy

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary goal of this study was to identify parameters affecting the failure of videolaryngoscopy in clinical practice; secondly, the incidence of videolaryngoscopy use and the most frequently used patient groups.

Full description

Videolaryngoscopy is widely used in the management of patients with presumed difficult airway. It offers an improved laryngeal view compared with direct laryngoscopy and increases the likelihood of successful intubation in patients for whom direct laryngoscopy is anticipated to be difficult. It is among the most frequently preferred difficult airway devices due to its ease of use, portability and direct laryngoscopy resemblance. The use of videolaryngoscopy has been shown to improve intubation success in many cases associated with difficult intubation, such as morbid obesity, pregnancy, limitation of cervical motility, and poor mouth opening.

Enrollment: 1,159 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients who used videolaryngoscopy for intubation

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

1,159 participants in 1 patient group

Videolaryngoscopy patients

Description:

The patients who were attempted to be intubated with videolaryngoscopy

Treatment:

Device: Videolaryngoscopy