The pediatric airway is known to be more challenging than the adult airway when performing endotracheal intubation. When a patient cannot be ventilated and/or intubated, the guidelines for airway management dictate that a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) be used as a rescue device to oxygenate and ventilate the patient. While an excellent device the LMA is seen as temporary and ultimately needs to be replaced by an endotracheal tube (ETT).
The objective is to study this device in patients with difficult airway to assess the success rate and time to intubation for placing an endotracheal tube using this device.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DEVICE_FEASIBILITY
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Time from fiberoptic placement onto airway to documentation of end-tidal carbon dioxide waveform through the endotracheal tube.
Texas Children's Hosppital
Houston, Texas, United States
Overall time in the airway
Time from fiberoptic placement onto airway to documentation of end-tidal carbon dioxide waveform through the endotracheal tube.
Time frame: 5 minutes
Total time to intubation
Time from movement of the device to documentation of end-tidal carbon dioxide waveform through the endotracheal tube.
Time frame: 3 minutes
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