NCT03343496

Simplification and Implementation of Awake Fibreoptic Orotracheal Intubation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fudan University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Awake fibreoptic intubation (AFOI) is a classic and standard method for some special patients which is also difficult for anesthesiologists to learn and master. The procedure is sometimes hard and often takes about 20-30 min. Most of patients have a strong sense of discomfort. Investigators conducted the research to study the simplification and feasibility of AFOI.

Detailed description

Many studies have studied the sedative drugs and regional anesthesia related to awake intubation. However, several problems of AFOI are existing including long operation time, patients' strong discomfort, coughing and resistance. And, to investigators' knowledge, there was a lack of a fixed procedure for the implementation of AFOI. Investigators conducted the research and aimed to study the simplification and feasibility of a new AFOI method based on years of clinical theory, practice and experience.

Conditions

• Anesthesia
• Trachea
• Intubation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Awake fiberoptic intubation (AFOI)	With forty patients (ASA I\~II, aged 18\~75, simulating cervical instability injury) recruited to be operated on under general anesthesia, two experienced anesthesiologists performed the whole procedures within the study. Pre anesthetic interview was taken to illustrate the procedures of tracheal intubation to the patients. The simplified method consisted of three parts: conscious sedation, regional anesthesia and intubation. The time of AFOI, rate of one-time intubation success, hemodynamic parameters, pulse oxygen saturation (SpO2), rate of amnesia of the intubation, patients' satisfaction, and relative complications were recorded accordingly.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-17
• Primary completion: 2018-01-30
• Completion: 2018-01-30
• First posted: 2017-11-17
• Last updated: 2019-01-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China