Serial Usage of Combitube in Anesthesiology

Michael Frass

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery

Treatments: Device: Combitube

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02571621

2015/10

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective evaluation of a database of ETC routine uses during general anaesthesia.

Full description

Background: The oesophageal-tracheal Combitube (ETC) was designed for the use in the pre-hospital setting and has proven its value both there and in difficult airway management. The ETC is a double-lumen tube and as such it enables ventilation independent of its position in either the trachea or the oesophagus. Since laryngoscopy is not necessary for positioning the ETC, it is especially favoured in pre-hospital setting, but is also used in clinical setting.

Objectives: Retrospective evaluation of a database of ETC routine uses during general anaesthesia.

Enrollment: 745 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients ASA class I and II

Exclusion criteria

• patients not able to sign informed consent

Trial design

745 participants in 1 patient group

Patients intubated with Combitube

Description:

Patients with Combitube intubation undergoing general anesthesia with ASA class I and II

Treatment:

Device: Combitube