Using Video Laryngoscopy for Neonatal Intubation

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education, Medical

Treatments: Other: Traditional Laryngoscopy; Other: Video Laryngoscopy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03035175

RSRB00051876

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study examines the effectiveness of utilizing video laryngoscopy to give real-time guidance during neonatal intubations to improve residents' success at performing intubations.

Full description

To evaluate whether residents who receive guidance from a supervisor concurrently viewing the neonate's airway via video laryngoscopy will have a higher rate of successful neonatal intubations than residents receiving guidance using traditional direct laryngoscopy.

The investigators conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 48 first and second year pediatric and medicine-pediatric residents who received either video-facilitated (VDL) or traditional (TDL) supervisor guidance during direct laryngoscopy. Residents attempted intubations in the neonatal intensive care unit according to their randomization group. The primary outcome was a successful intubation that occurred within two attempts.

Enrollment: 48 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1st and 2nd Year Pediatric and Medicine-Pediatric Residents at the University of Rochester

Exclusion criteria

• Residents who declined participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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48 participants in 2 patient groups

Video Laryngoscopy Group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects enrolled in this arm received real-time guidance from a supervisor utilizing the screen of the video laryngoscope while the subjects performed direct neonatal intubations in the NICU.

Treatment:

Other: Video Laryngoscopy

Traditional Laryngoscopy Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects enrolled in this arm, received traditional guidance while they performed direct neonatal intubations in the NICU.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional Laryngoscopy