Utilization of Airway Stabilizing Rod (FASTER)

Baylor College of Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Airway Complication of Anesthesia

Treatments: Device: Time to Intubation using FASTER device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05899868

H50120

Details and patient eligibility

About

The pediatric airway is known to be more challenging than the adult airway when performing endotracheal intubation. When a patient cannot be ventilated and/or intubated, the guidelines for airway management dictate that a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) be used as a rescue device to oxygenate and ventilate the patient. While an excellent device the LMA is seen as temporary and ultimately needs to be replaced by an endotracheal tube (ETT).

Full description

The objective is to study this device in patients with difficult airway to assess the success rate and time to intubation for placing an endotracheal tube using this device.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 5-18 years
• Requiring intubation
• Known difficult airway
• LMA placement possible

Exclusion criteria

• Known normal airway
• Procedure not requiring endotracheal intubation
• Parental refusal
• Patient dissent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Device Feasibility

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Time to intubation using FASTER device

Other group

Description:

Time from fiberoptic placement into airway to documentation of end-tidal carbon dioxide waveform through the endotracheal tube.

Treatment:

Device: Time to Intubation using FASTER device