NCT02035449

Video Laryngoscopy in Pre-hospital Critical Care

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Difficult conditions and critically ill and injured patients may complicate endotracheal intubation in the pre-hospital setting. The incidence of complications increase when two or more endotracheal intubation attempts are needed. The aim of this study is to estimate the incidence of difficult pre-hospital endotracheal intubation after the introduction of the McGrath MAC Video laryngoscope as the primary airway device for pre-hospital endotracheal intubation. Hypothesis: • In our pre-hospital critical care teams, staffed with experienced anaesthesiologists, the rate of difficult PHETI (defined as more than one intubation attempt needed to secure a patent airway) is lower than 10 %, when using the McGrath MAC VL as primary choice in pre-hospital intubations.

Conditions

• Airway Morbidity
• Airway Disease
• Respiratory Insufficiency
• Respiratory Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	McGrath MAC	McGrath MAC is a videolaryngoscope

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-12-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-01-14
• Last updated: 2014-01-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark