NCT02364622

The Effects of Flexible Intubating Stylet in the Accurate Placement of Double-lumen Endobronchial Tube

The Effects of Flexible Trachway(R) Intubating Stylet in the Accurate Placement of Left-sided Double-lumen Endobronchial Tube

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether using the flexible Trachway(R) intubating stylet could facilitate and promote the accurate placement of double-lumen endobronchial tube.

Detailed description

How to accurately place the left-sided double-lumen endobronchial tube (DLT) in the trachea remains a great challenge for anesthesiologists. Although new upper airway devices, such as flexible Trachway (R), a video-assisted intubating stylet, had been developed for facilitating airway management, the larger size and the complexity of DLT makes the difficulties for accurate placement of DLT blindly. Therefore, the investigators designed this study to investigate the effects of flexibleTrachway(R) intubating stylet in the placement of left-sided DLT in the trachea.

Conditions

• Intubation Complication
• Intubation, Difficult

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Tranditional fiberoptic bronchoscopy	The accurate placement of left-sided DLT into the left main bronchus was facilitated by tranditional fiberoptic bronchoscopy.
DEVICE	Modified fiberoptic bronchoscopy	The accurate placement of left-sided DLT into the left main bronchus was facilitated by modified fiberoptic bronchoscopy
DEVICE	Flexible Trachway intubating stylet	The accurate placement of left-sided DLT into the left main bronchus was faciliated by using flexible Trachway intubating stylet.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2015-02-18
• Last updated: 2015-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan