NCT03403946

Macintosh and D-Blade® in Simulated Difficult Airway

Comparison of Direct and Indirect Laryngoscopy Using C-MAC PM® With Macintosh Blade and D-Blade® in Simulated Difficult Airway

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 48 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In the presented study, our aim was to compare intubation conditions regarding the modified Cormack \& Lehane score (CL) between the D-Blade® in indirect laryngoscopy or Macintosh blade in direct and indirect laryngoscopy with C-MAC PM® in a simulated setting of a difficult airway in human subjects.

Detailed description

Patients with unexpected difficult airway requiring endotracheal intubation (ETI) remain extremely challenging for emergency physicians and intubation failure with subsequent hypoxic complications still represents the majority of cases in a recent closed claims analysis. An incidence of major complications in airway management of 1 in 5,500 was estimated in the Fourth National Audit Project in the UK. Therefore, our aim was to compare intubation conditions regarding the modified Cormack \& Lehane score (CL) between the D-Blade® in indirect laryngoscopy or Macintosh blade in direct and indirect laryngoscopy with C-MAC PM® in a simulated setting of a difficult airway in human subjects.

Conditions

• Difficult Intubation
• Cervical Injury Spine

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Macintosh blade	Laryngoscopy with C-MAC PM in combination with Macintosh blade
DEVICE	D-Blade	Laryngoscopy with C-MAC PM in combination with D-Blade
DEVICE	Intubation	Intubation with C-MAC PM in combination with D-Blade

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-12-01
• Primary completion: 2012-02-29
• Completion: 2012-08-31
• First posted: 2018-01-19
• Last updated: 2018-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany