NCT00951769

Algorithms in a Simulated Difficult Intubation Scenario

A Comparison of the Difficult Airway Society (UK) and Australian Patient Safety Foundation Crisis Algorithms for Difficult Intubation in a Simulated Difficult Intubation Scenario

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a non-human study, conducted in a simulation environment, with simulator manikins, and volunteers from anaesthesia. Trainees in their first 2 years of anaesthetics training will be randomised to a control group, a group following the Difficult Airway Society UK's Guidelines and the Australian Difficult Airway management algorithm. A simulated difficult airway will be created during the induction of anaesthesia. The investigators will examine adherence to guidelines, which would have been provided to participants before the experiment, as well as compare their performance with the guidelines.

Conditions

• Airway Management

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-12-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2009-08-04
• Last updated: 2022-06-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom