The aim of the study is to investigate the efficiency of the Video-stylet (Trachway ®) and the fiberoptic bronchoscopy in facilitation of nasotracheal intubation in limited mouth opening patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
80
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital
Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
RECRUITINGnumber of the patients with successful nasotracheal intubation and scoring modified intubation difficulty scale
Nasotracheal intubation is assisted by a video-stylet may be performed in patients undergoing Limited Mouth Opening following induction of anesthesia (fentanyl 2 micro-gram/kg, thiamylal 5 mg/kg) and is facilitated by cis-atracurium 0.2 mg/kg administration. propofol 1 mg/kg intravenously to blunt hemodynamic responses while intubation. a modified intubation difficulty scale to evaluate the difficulty of fiber-scope guided or trachway assisted nasotracheal intubation
Time frame: half an hour
time to intubate
time of Intubating the nasotracheal tube (NT) from selected nostril to trachea is continuously calculated but separately into two parts. part one: from leaving off mask ventilation (mask removal from face), to the NT tip on the nasopharynx. part two: advancing NT from nasopharynx, through vocal cord into trachea, to present of 3 end tidal carbon dioxide waveforms.
Time frame: half an hour
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