Patients presenting for elective surgery requiring orotracheal intubation will be randomized to being intubated with either the conventional (reusable) GlideScope videolaryngoscope or the single-use GlideScope videolaryngoscope. The primary outcome is time to intubation.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
Time to intubation (seconds)
Time frame: Immediate
Ease of intubation
Time frame: after intubation
Number of intubation attempts per group
Time frame: after intubation
Incidence of trauma in each group
Time frame: after intubation
Number of failures to intubate per group
Time frame: after intubation
Use of external laryngeal pressure per group
Time frame: after intubation
Laryngoscopic grade distribution in each group
Time frame: after intubation
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