Comparison of AirTraq Laryngoscope to Macintosh Laryngoscope for Intubation of Patients With Potential Cervical Spine Injury

Launched by LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OR LAWSON RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ST. JOSEPH'S · Apr 22, 2008

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ClinConnect Summary

With the surgeon's consent, informed and written consent will be ob¬tained from patients who are undergoing elective surgery requiring general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation. Preoperative clinical assessment of the patients will include routine airway evaluation of dentition, mouth opening, tongue size, Mallampati score, and neck mobility, as well as height, weight, and age.

While awake, the patients will be placed on the operating room table with a rigid board under their head, neck, and torso in order to simulate the table on which patients involved in trauma are placed in the e...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Elective non-cardiac surgery patients requiring intubation for the surgery.
• • (Cardiac surgery uses TEE; there would not be space for the fluoroscopy machine.)
• • ASA 1-3
• • Body Mass Index (BMI) \< 35
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • patients with previous neck surgery or unstable C-spine
• • patients with Reflux disease (GERD)
• • patients who are or may be pregnant