Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score

University of Kansas Medical Center2,000 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this observational study is to evaluate the usefulness of Kansas University airway exam score ("KU score") in predicting difficulty of placement of a breathing tube into the windpipe.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

2,000

Conditions

Intubation

Interventions

KU ScoreOTHER

Exam with a max score of 10 and min score of 0. Designed as a preoperative assessment of the patient's airway.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I-IV * Patients scheduled for a surgical or any other diagnostic or therapeutic procedure that requires endotracheal intubation (ETI) Exclusion Criteria: * Patients scheduled for an emergent surgery * Obstetric patients

Locations (1)

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Correlation between KU score and intubation difficulty scale (IDS) measure

The measure is assessed during the time period between the start of preoperative examination on the day of surgery and completion of a standard tracheal intubation in the operating room. Correlation measured using the Spearman correlation coefficient.

Time frame: Time between preoperative exam to after intubation, up to 3 hours

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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