Utility of Tracheal Ultrasonography for the Confirmation of the Endotracheal Tube Placement

NCT ID: NCT03220698

Last Updated: 2017-07-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 360 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2017-01-31

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to compare tracheal ultrasound with direct visualization of tracheal rings for the confirmation of endotracheal tube placement in intubated patients. We hypothesize that this method is more reliable, cheap, and readily available for all emergency physicians.

Detailed Description

Confirmation of the ETT placement has utmost importance in the management of airway in emergency medicine (EM). Visual examination of the tube (fogging), auscultation, chest x-ray, capnography, capnometry and fiberoptic bronchoscopy are the main tools used for confirmation with increasing diagnostic utilities. Recently, tracheal ultrasonography (US) was introduced as a reliable, cheap and readily available method of confirmation of ETT placement.

Conditions

Intubation Complication

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CONTROL
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Tracheal ultrasonography

Tracheal ultrasonography

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• adults (>=18 years)
• intubated in the ED
• during the shifts of the researchers (TM, OFC).

Exclusion Criteria

• anatomical, traumatic or tumoral defect(s) at the site of sonographic imaging

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

Sponsors

Marmara University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Haldun Akoglu

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Haldun Akoglu, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Marmara University

Other Identifiers

09.2016.054

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id