NCT03539185

Airtraq Versus Fiberoptic for Awake Tracheal Intubation

Completed NA Last updated 19 October 2020

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Videolaryngoscope Airtraq in Intubation;Difficult in 78 participants. Completed in 18 May 2020.

Timeline

1 June 2018

Primary endpoint
18 May 2020

18 May 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University Hospital, Caen
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	78
Start date	1 June 2018
Primary completion	18 May 2020
Estimated completion	18 May 2020
Sites	1 location across France

Drugs / interventions tested

• Videolaryngoscope Airtraq
• Fiberoptic bronchoscope

Conditions studied

• Intubation;Difficult — all drugs for Intubation;Difficult →
• Awake Intubation — all drugs for Awake Intubation →
• Airway Complication of Anesthesia — all drugs for Airway Complication of Anesthesia →

Sponsor

University Hospital, Caen

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Intubation;Difficult or Awake Intubation. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The airway management is a vital act in anesthesia. The gold standard technique for planned very difficult intubation is nasotracheal fiberoptic intubation. The success rate with this procedure is 98.8%. However, learning this technique is difficult and it's considered uncomfortable by patients and practitioners.

The Airtraq® videolaryngoscope is commonly used for difficult orotracheal intubation. Cases of awake intubation by Airtraq® have been described.

Furthermore, the French Society of Anesthesia-Resuscitation, in its last formalized expert recommendations (2017) on difficult intubation, proposes the use of video laryngoscopes as an alternative to the fiberoptic bronchoscope.

We propose a non-inferiority study evaluating the use of Airtraq® for the realization of a awake intubation compared to the gold standard (fiberoptic bronchoscope). This prospective randomized study should include 78 patients in two groups. The purpose of this study is to improve the comfort of patient and practitioner during an awake tracheal intubation, to facilitate the learning of the technique.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.