NCT04378192

Laryngeal Mask Airway as a Bridge for Intubation of Obese Patients for Sleeve Gastrectomy

Assessment of the Use of Laryngeal Mask Airway as Abridge for Intubation of Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Sleeve Gastrectomy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Suez Canal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Ventilation, as well as intubation of a morbidly obese patient, is challenging and require special preparations and skilful hands, in this study laryngeal mask airway insertion is used as a bridge for intubation to facilitate ventilation as give enough time to anaesthetics and muscle relaxants to work on.

Detailed description

The ordinary pathway of intubating a morbidly obese patient for sleeve gastrectomy is bordered by the risk of difficult ventilation and intubation with the subsequent events of hypoxia and hypoventilation. When the patient is easy ventilated, it gives some sort of confidence and pleasure for the anaesthetist that the way of intubation will not be so hard. One problem here is the difficulty of ventilating a morbidly obese patient, in this study the investigators used laryngeal mask airway as a bridge before inserting the endotracheal tube

Conditions

• Bariatric Surgery Candidate

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Laryngeal mask airway	Insertion of laryngeal mask airway before intubation of a morbidly obese patient
DEVICE	face mask	use of face mask before intubation of a morbidly obese patient

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-02-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-30
• Completion: 2020-01-30
• First posted: 2020-05-07
• Last updated: 2020-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt