Video Laryngoscope vs. Video Stylet During General Anesthesia With Obesity Patient

Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Obesity; Intubation; Difficult or Failed

Treatments: Device: McGrath MAC; Device: Trachway

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05006651

IRB109-265-A

Details and patient eligibility

About

Obesity patients are more common in recent years. They have potential difficult airway. Two different video devices are popular used in Taiwan, video larygoscope and video stylet. We compared video larygoscope (McGrath MAC) and video stylet (Trachway) during elective surgery require tracheal intubation with obesity patients. The control group is traditional laryngoscope. 325 patients would be enrolled, above 100 patient each group.

Enrollment: 325 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Elective surgery needs intubation
• ASA I to III
• BMI>30kg/m2

Exclusion criteria

• Head and neck cancer
• Skull, neck fracture
• Tracheal trauma
• NPO< 8hr
• Lung disease with hypoxemia
• Mental Disorders
• Patient wouldn't be extubated after operation immediately
• Contraindicated to muscle relaxant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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325 participants in 3 patient groups

Laryngoscope

No Intervention group

Description:

Intubation with traditional laryngoscope

McGrath MAC

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intubation with video laryngoscope

Treatment:

Device: McGrath MAC

Trachway

Active Comparator group

Description:

Intubation with video stylet

Treatment:

Device: Trachway