Do we Intubate Faster With the Videolaryngoscope?

The Aim of the study was to determine the impact of the videolaryngoscpe on the time needed to intubate.

This was a Prospective, randomized, simple blinded study. The participants intubated patients for surgery under general anesthesia either with direct laryngoscpy or with videolaryngoscopy.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: General Anesthesia; Laryngoscopy
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: intubation by direct laryngoscopy; Device: Intubation by videolaryngoscopy

Detailed Description

Intubation on full stomach is at high risk of pulmonary suction. It must be quick, as this risk increases with the time needed to intubate. Videolaryngoscope (VL) is recommended in case of difficult airway. Yet, its interest in full stomach remains unclear, as the time needed to intubate with a VL is variable in literature. The Aim of the study was to determine the impact of the videolaryngoscpe on the time needed to intubate.

This was a Prospective, randomized, simple blinded study. The participants intubated patients for surgery under general anesthesia either with direct laryngoscpy or with videolaryngoscopy.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Tunisia
  • Tunis, Tunisia, 2085
    • Mongi Slim hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age > 18 years-old;
• ASA status 1 to 3;
• General anesthesia and intubation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Difficult intubations criteria.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Single

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Group Direct laryngoscopy (DL); Group DL: intubated with direct laryngoscopy type Macintosh.	Device: intubation by direct laryngoscopy; intubation using a direct laryngoscopy type macintosh; Other Names: DL
Experimental: Group vidéo Laryngoscopy (VL); Group VL: intubated with a video laryngoscope type McGrath	Device: Intubation by videolaryngoscopy; Intubation using a videolaryngoscope type McGrath; Other Names: VL

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Time needed to intubate	Time needed to the operator to pass the tube through vocal cords in seconds	during the intubation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of intubation attempts.	number of attempts needed to intubate	at the end of intubation
Major desaturation	an oximetry under 90 %	during intubation
Difficulty of the laryngoscopy	cormack anf lehane grade (1 to 4) 1 and 2 indicate easy laryngoscopy and 3 and 4 indicate difficult laryngoscopy	at the end of intubation

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Mongi Slim Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Mhamed Sami MS Mebazaa, Pr, Mongi Slim hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 31, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): April 30, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 30, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 30, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): May 10, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 23, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 20, 2023
• Last Verified: May 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Time to intubate VL

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No