Retromolar Route Access With and Without A Retromolar Gap

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
• Main ID: NCT02611141
• Date of registration: 07/11/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Medical University of Vienna
• Public title: Retromolar Route Access With and Without A Retromolar Gap
• Scientific title: Retromolar Route Access With and Without A Retromolar Gap - A Visualization Study Of The Vocal Cords
• Date of first enrolment: November 2015
• Target sample size: 40
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02611141
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Other. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Austria

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- BMI < 35kg/m2

- Elective surgery

- Absence of at least one molar of the right mandible in arm I (20 patients)

Exclusion Criteria:

- Emergency patients

- Prevalence of reflux disease

- Toothless patients

- Diaphragmatic hernia

- Patient is not sober

- Ventilation problems during induction of anaesthesia

- Patient with a tracheostomy



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 99 Years
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Airway Management

Intervention(s)

Procedure: Retromolar laryngoscopy and scoring of the visualisation of the vocal cords according to Cormack & Lehane

Primary Outcome(s)

Cormack & Lehane score (with a backward, upward, rightwards pressure maneuver) [Time Frame: Approximately 5-10 seconds after the collection of the Outcome Measure 1]

Cormack & Lehane score (without a backward, upward, rightwards pressure maneuver) [Time Frame: At least 2 minutes after muscle relaxation]

Secondary ID(s)

1848/2015

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors