NCT01114945

Comparative Effectiveness of Intubating Devices in the Morbidly Obese

A Prospective Study Comparing Video Laryngoscopy Devices to Direct Laryngoscopy for Tracheal Intubation of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 121 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This prospective, randomized study will compare the effectiveness of 4 different airway intubating devices which are most commonly used. The four different devices are as follows: McGrath video laryngoscope, GlideScope video laryngoscope, Video-Mac video laryngoscope, and Macintosh size 4 direct laryngoscope.

Detailed description

Hypothesis: the use of a video laryngoscope will improve the glottic view compared to direct laryngoscopy, and secondarily, use of the video laryngoscope will reduce the time required to achieve successful tracheal intubation in patients undergoing bariatric surgery. (Weight loss surgery). The three types of video laryngoscopy devices include; the Verethon GlideScope, LMA McGrath and Karl-Storz Video-Mac.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	McGrath	Intubation with the McGrath device
DEVICE	GlideScope	Intubation with the GlideScope device
DEVICE	Direct Macintosh Laryngoscopy	Intubation with Direct Macintosh Laryngoscope
DEVICE	Video-Mac	Intubation with the Video-Mac device

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2010-05-03
• Last updated: 2016-04-06
• Results posted: 2016-03-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States