NCT03693235

Adequate Bending Angle of a Lightwand

Adequate Bending Angle of a Lightwand for Tracheal Intubation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

For tracheal intubation with a lightwand, adequate bending angle was not exactly investigated. The purpose of the study is compare three bending angles of lightwands for safe and efficient tracheal intubation.

Detailed description

Lightwands are very useful device for difficult airway management due to small moth opening, weak teeth, and cervical spine instability. Experienced clinicians use a lightwand while bending it adequately. However, there has been not previous studies to investigate the adequate angle to bend it. This randomized controlled trial is to compare three angles (70, 80, and 90 degrees) as bending angle of lightwands for safe and efficient tracheal intubation in cases which require the use of lightwands.

Conditions

• Tracheal Intubation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	bending angle of a lightwand	For tracheal intubation, investigators will bend the tracheal tube combined a lightwand by assigned angles (70, 80, or 90 degrees) for each patient. Next a practitioner will perform tracheal intubation with the bent tube.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-14
• Primary completion: 2019-09-05
• Completion: 2019-09-05
• First posted: 2018-10-02
• Last updated: 2020-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea