Retrospective Study in Patients Who Have Had a Difficult Intubation.

NCT ID: NCT02576756

Last Updated: 2025-11-18

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2015-10-31

Study Completion Date

2016-06-30

Brief Summary

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The investigator wants to investigate if there is an increased risk of postoperative pulmonary problems in patients who have had an intubation where there was need for more than a laryngoscope.

Detailed Description

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A difficult intubation is defined as an intubation in which more than a laryngoscope was needed.

Afterwards patient data retrieved from the Clinical Work Station: age, type of operation and time, date, type of anaesthesia, de tools needed for intubation, time needed for intubation and anaesthesia.

In the Clinical Work Station of the Hospital the investigator will search for the following data in these selected patients: preoperative comorbidities, home medication, type of postoperative pulmonary problems and the treatment that was given, time of hospital stay and which department the patient stayed.

Patients with a difficult intubation will be linked to a patient with a corresponding medical history and type of operation but without a difficult intubation. The investigator will look for the same parameters of these patients in the Clinical Work Station.

By means of an odds-ratio the relative risk of a pulmonary complication after a difficult intubation in connection with an easy intubation with different variables can be calculated.

Conditions

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Aspiration Pneumonia

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_CONTROL

Study Time Perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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with difficult intubation

Control population

No interventions assigned to this group

without difficult intubation

Control population

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Every patient who had an intubation where another device than a laryngoscope was necessary

Exclusion Criteria

* N/A
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Josia B Glissenaar, Med student

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Jan Poelaert, PhD MED

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Other Identifiers

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PULINT

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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