Does Tracheal Tube Size Affect Patient's Experience of Postoperative Sore Throat and Hoarseness

Regionshospital Nordjylland261 enrolled

Overview

How tube size affect patient's experience of postoperative sore throat and hoarseness

A randomised controlled study studying how tube size affect patient's experience of postoperative sore throat and hoarseness. The patients are randomised on the basis of gender. Men are randomized to tube size 8.0 (usual) or 7.0. Women are randomized to tube size 7.0 (usual) or 6.0.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

261

Conditions

Sore Throat Hoarseness

Interventions

Smaller tube sizeDEVICE

Comparing how tube size affect patient's experience of postoperative sore throat and hoarseness in men and women.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Need for intubation * Elective surgery * ASA Group I and II * Understands and speaks Danish * give one's consent Exclusion Criteria: * Known dementia * SARI score \>4 * BMI \> 35 * Acute intubation * attempt intubation \> 2 * known with previously difficult intubation

Locations (2)

North Denmark Regional Hospital

Hjørring, Denmark

Aalborg University Hospital

Thisted, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Sore throat after intubation

Survey - experienced postoperative sore throat after intubation. A scale from 1-4 is used; 1 indicated no sore throat and 4 indicated seriously sore throat.

Time frame: 7 days

Hoarseness after intubation

Survey - experienced postoperative hoarseness after intubation. A scale from 1-4 is used; 1 indicated no hoarseness and 4 indicated seriously hoarseness.

Time frame: 7 days

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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