Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubation

Treatments: Other: KU Score

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03060187

12093

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this observational study is to evaluate the usefulness of Kansas University airway exam score ("KU score") in predicting difficulty of placement of a breathing tube into the windpipe.

Enrollment: 2,000 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-IV
• Patients scheduled for a surgical or any other diagnostic or therapeutic procedure that requires endotracheal intubation (ETI)

Exclusion criteria

• Patients scheduled for an emergent surgery
• Obstetric patients

Trial design

2,000 participants in 1 patient group

KU Score

Description:

Participants asked to answer questions for the KU Score exam

Treatment:

Other: KU Score