Teleguidance-facilitated Airway Management

Kocaeli University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Emergencies; Telemedicine; Intubation; Difficult or Failed

Treatments: Device: Teleguidance-facilitated Airway Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06497725

GOKAEK-2024/07.13

Details and patient eligibility

About

The advent of telemedicine has introduced teleguidance as a promising support to enhance endotracheal intubation skills among inexperienced operators. Several studies showed the effectiveness of supervisor assisted ETI using the various VL devices and commercial videoconferencing softwares. However, recent developments in VL technologies introduced the VL integrated videoconferencing features for this purpose. Scoper VL device (Technomedicare Inc, Turkiye) developed a real-time teleconsultation feature for difficult airway scenarios to be assisted by experts during the procedure. However, the literature is very limited about the effectiveness and feasibility of teleguidance-facilitated airway management.

This high-fidelity simulation study aims to assess impact of teleguidance-facilitated airway management on the success of ETI performed by inexperienced operators in a mobile ambulance.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All paramedic students who completed their airway management training

Exclusion criteria

• The trainees who did not consent to participate
• The trainees who did not complete the VL training

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

Teleguidance-facilitated Airway Management

Experimental group

Description:

The airway expert able to remotely access to videolaryngoscopy monitor will provide verbal feedback during the endotracheal intubation.

Treatment:

Device: Teleguidance-facilitated Airway Management

Standard Airway Management

No Intervention group

Description:

Operator will use standard videolaryngoscopy without expert feedback during the endotracheal intubation.