NCT01564082

Comparison of Early Endotracheal Tube Insertion With GlideScope Use

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (actual)
• Sponsor: London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Patients presenting for elective surgery will be randomized to having the breathing tube inserted partly into the throat prior to GlideScope insertion, or having it inserted fully after GlideScope insertion.

Detailed description

Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to having the Early Endotracheal Tube (ETT) inserted into the pharynx prior to GlideScope insertion and then having the ETT advanced under GlideScope guidance into the trachea, or, being intubated in the standard fashion with the GlideScope being inserted first and having the ETT then advanced via the pharynx into the trachea. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Conditions

• Endotracheal Intubation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	ETT First (GlideScope)	Patients will have the endotracheal tube (ETT) introduced into the pharynx under direct vision prior to GlideScope insertion. The ETT will then be advanced under GlideScope guidance into the trachea.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-04-01
• Primary completion: 2013-03-01
• Completion: 2013-03-01
• First posted: 2012-03-27
• Last updated: 2015-04-10

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Canada