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NCT Number: NCT03060187

Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Intubation

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, 66160, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

KU Score

Other

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

Primary outcomes

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

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

    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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Kansas Medical Center

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The "KU Score": Proposal and Clinical Evaluation of a Comprehensive Airway Exam Score; an Observational Study

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2011
Study completion
2011
First posted
Feb 23, 2017
Registry last updated
Feb 23, 2017

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