Venner a.p. Advance Video Laryngoscope (VAVL)

International Institute of Rescue Research and Education

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intubation; Resuscitation

Treatments: Device: VAVL; Device: MIL

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02277418

ETI/2014/05

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to compare the Venner a.p. advance video laryngoscope to Miller laryngoscope during resuscitation with and without chest compressions.

Full description

Endotracheal intubation (ETI) is a life-saving procedure performed daily in emergency medicine. The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) 2010 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines suggest that intubators should be able to secure the airway without interrupting chest compression. However, ETI with uninterrupted chest compression in patients can be a very difficult skill to acquire.

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• give voluntary consent to participate in the study
• minimum 1 year of work experience in emergency medicine
• experienced emergency medical personnel (paramedics, nurses, physicians

Exclusion criteria

• not meet the above criteria
• wrist or low back diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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112 participants in 4 patient groups

Child ETI withoutchest compressions

Experimental group

Description:

Endotracheal intubation of pediatric mannikin during resuscitation without chest compressions.

Treatment:

Device: MIL

Device: VAVL

Child ETI with chest compressions

Experimental group

Description:

Endotracheal intubation of mannikin during resuscitation with uninterrupted chest compressions. In order to simulate the difficulties associated with intubation during uninterrupted chest compressions, CPR was performed by using LUCAS-2 (Physio-Control, Redmond, WA, U.S.).

Treatment:

Device: MIL

Device: VAVL

Infant ETI with chest compressions

Experimental group

Description:

endotracheal intubation (ETI) during infant mannikin resuscitation with uninterrupted chest compressions.

Treatment:

Device: MIL

Device: VAVL

Infant ETI without chest compressions

Experimental group

Description:

Endotracheal intubation of infant mannikin during resuscitation without chest compressions.

Treatment:

Device: MIL

Device: VAVL