Utility of Tracheal Ultrasonography for the Confirmation of the Endotracheal Tube Placement

Marmara University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubation Complication

Treatments: Device: Tracheal ultrasonography

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03220698

09.2016.054

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare tracheal ultrasound with direct visualization of tracheal rings for the confirmation of endotracheal tube placement in intubated patients. We hypothesize that this method is more reliable, cheap, and readily available for all emergency physicians.

Full description

Confirmation of the ETT placement has utmost importance in the management of airway in emergency medicine (EM). Visual examination of the tube (fogging), auscultation, chest x-ray, capnography, capnometry and fiberoptic bronchoscopy are the main tools used for confirmation with increasing diagnostic utilities. Recently, tracheal ultrasonography (US) was introduced as a reliable, cheap and readily available method of confirmation of ETT placement.

Enrollment: 360 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adults (>=18 years)
• intubated in the ED
• during the shifts of the researchers (TM, OFC).

Exclusion criteria

• anatomical, traumatic or tumoral defect(s) at the site of sonographic imaging