NCT02294422

Balloon Palpation vs Loss of Resistance Syringe for Safe Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure; a Randomized Clinical Trial

Achieving Recommended Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure; A Randomized Control Trial Comparing Loss of Resistance Syringe to Pilot Balloon Palpation.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 178 (actual)
• Sponsor: Makerere University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is aimed at establishing whether use of loss of resistance syringe (LOR) that is traditionally used for identifying epidural space, is a better method for providing safe cuff pressures in adults intubated with cuffed endotracheal tubes. The conventional method is the use of pilot ballon palpation (PBP) to approximate cuff pressures but this is associated with airway damage. The study hypothesis states that both the loss of resistance syringe method and the pilot balloon palpation methods achieve the recommended endotracheal tube intracuff pressures.

Conditions

• Tracheal Damage

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	PBP	the pilot balloon is continuously palpated o felt for adequate pressure as its being inflated.
DEVICE	LOR
DEVICE	Aneroid manometer	The pilot balloon is attached onto the manometer and cuff pressures are raed off from the gauge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-04-01
• Primary completion: 2015-02-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2014-11-19
• Last updated: 2015-06-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Uganda