NCT03930550

Infrared Transillumination of the Front of the Neck

Infrared Transillumination of the Front of the Neck as an Aid for Awake Intubation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rigshospitalet, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Infrared light is applied to the front of the neck of patients for awake flexible optical intubation. The infrared light can be detected by the camera at the tip of the flexible video-bronchoscope. The flexible scope is introduced into the trachea with or without the aid of the blinking infra red light and the ease of placement of the flexible scope is studied.

Detailed description

The investigators study patients for anaesthesia who will need endotracheal intubation and in whom the intubation is predicted to become difficult so that an awake flexible-video-scope-guided intubation is chosen. Infrared light is applied to the front of the neck of patients for awake flexible optical intubation. The infrared light can be detected by the camera at the tip of the flexible video-bronchoscope. The flexible scope is introduced into the trachea with or without the aid of the blinking infra red light and the ease of placement of the flexible scope is studied.

Conditions

• Tracheal Intubation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Tracheal intubation by endoscopy with flexible bronchoscope	A blinking infrared light source is placed on the anterior neck at the level of the cricothyroid membrane to serve as a guide to facilitate finding the way to the trachea

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-06
• Completion: 2020-01-06
• First posted: 2019-04-29
• Last updated: 2021-02-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark