Comparison of GlideScope-Specific Rigid Stylet to Standard Malleable Stylet for GlideScope Intubation by Novice Operators

NCT ID: NCT00884754

Last Updated: 2011-01-11

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-03-31
• Study Completion Date: 2009-11-30

Brief Summary

Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring tracheal intubation will be randomized to one of two different endotracheal tube (ETT) stylets. The intubation will be done with a GlideScope videolaryngoscope by a novice operator. The primary outcome is time to intubation.

Conditions

Airway

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

rigid GlideScope Specific Stylet

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

GlideScope rigid stylet

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Patients will be intubated either with a rigid stylet meant to be used with the GlideScope, or with a standard malleable stylet used with other modalities of intubation.

90º curvature, malleable stylet

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

GlideScope rigid stylet

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Patients will be intubated either with a rigid stylet meant to be used with the GlideScope, or with a standard malleable stylet used with other modalities of intubation.

Interventions

GlideScope rigid stylet

Patients will be intubated either with a rigid stylet meant to be used with the GlideScope, or with a standard malleable stylet used with other modalities of intubation.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• any adult patient scheduled for elective surgery.
• ETT is indicated for the procedure in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.
• any operator who has performed ≤ 10 GlideScope intubations.

Exclusion Criteria

• any patient in whom the use of the GlideScope is contraindicated in the opinion of the attending anesthesiologist.
• Patient with known cervical spine abnormalities.
• any patients with known or probable difficult airways. (This rare occurrence is unlikely to be evenly distributed between the groups and could skew the data).
• any patient requiring rapid sequence induction.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

University of Western Ontario

Principal Investigators

Philip M Jones, MD, FRCPC

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

LHSC

Locations

London Health Sciences Centre

London, Ontario, Canada

Countries

Canada

References

Jones PM, Loh FL, Youssef HN, Turkstra TP. A randomized comparison of the GlideRite((R)) Rigid Stylet to a malleable stylet for orotracheal intubation by novices using the GlideScope((R)). Can J Anaesth. 2011 Mar;58(3):256-61. doi: 10.1007/s12630-010-9440-z. Epub 2010 Dec 17.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 21165728 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

15520

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

R-08-594

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id