Fiberoptic Intubation and Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation：Success Rate and Time in Untrained Medical Personnel

Overview

Fiberoptic Intubation is the preferred technique to difficult airway. However, when performed by untrained anesthesiologists, bronchoscopic intubation has a high rate of failure. We want to know if the Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation technique can improves the success rate and time for tracheal intubation performed by inexperienced anesthesiologists; whether this technique improves the success rate and for normal intubations when performed by inexperienced anesthesiologists as well is unknown. Therefore, the authors compared the success rate and time of Fiberoptic Intubation versus the Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation performed by anesthesiologists inexperienced in Fiberoptic Intubation.

Full Title of Study: “Fiberoptic Intubation and Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation：Time and Success Rate in Untrained Medical Personnel”

Study Type

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
• Study Primary Completion Date: December 2011

Interventions

• Device: Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation
  • Light guided, Non-invasive

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

• Experimental: Intubation
  • Transillumination-guided Fiberoptic Intubation

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

• time to intubation
  • Time Frame: Within 3 month

Secondary Measures

• success rate and postoperative side effect
  • Time Frame: 2 months

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

• general anesthesia – ASA I~II – Mallampati Score grade I~II – thyromental distance ≥6cm – mouth-open ≥3cm – body mass index (BMI) ≤30kg/m2 Exclusion Criteria:

• neck and maxillofacial surgeries – potential risks for regurgitation and pulmonary aspiration – in pregnancy

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: 55 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

• Lead Sponsor
  • Second Military Medical University
• Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
  • Principal Investigator: Yang Tao, Department of Anesthesiology and Cirtical Care Medicine, Changhai Hospital – Second Military Medical University
• Overall Official(s)
  • XiaoMing Deng, Ph.D., Study Chair, Second Military Medical University