NCT03757091Completed
Flexible Intubation Scope With or Without Video Laryngoscope in Supporting Endotracheal Tube Placement in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer Before Surgery
Flexible Scope Intubation vs.Flexible Scope Intubation and Video Laryngoscopy Combination: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 18 Feb 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This trial studies how well flexible intubation scope with or without video laryngoscope works in supporting endotracheal tube placement in patients with head and neck cancer before surgery. Flexible intubation scope and video laryngoscope are devices that have a small camera to help the doctor see the patient's airway on a screen. Both devices may help the doctor who gives anesthesia prevent complications from placing the breathing tube (such as pain or mouth injury).
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 143 (actual)
- First submitted
- 26 Nov 2018
- Start date
- 15 Jan 2019
- Primary completion date
- 30 Nov 2024
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Head and neck cancer
- NCT number
- NCT03757091
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 143
- From 15 Jan 2019 to the primary completion date, 30 Nov 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Emergency endotracheal intubation and patients intubated pre and post-surgery
- Surgical procedures such as Tracheostomy, Laryngectomy, Esophagectomy
Other illness
- Active bleeding from nasopharynx or oropharynx
Other
- Trismus
- Oral pathology obstructing the glottic view
- Planned awake or nasal intubation
- Neuromuscular Blockade (NMB) contraindicated post-induction
- Patient refusal or inability to consent for study participation
- American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) V
- Pregnant females
Who the study is looking for
- Ages ≥ 18 years of age
- All surgical patients with known or suspected difficult airways that meet at least three (3) of the Difficult Airway criteria \[Mallampati III-IV, Neck circumference \> 40 cm, Sternomental distance \< 12 cm, Thyromental distance \< 6 cm, Mouth opening \< 4 cm, BMI ≥ 35 kg/m2, Upper Lip Bite Test - ULBT (class III)\] or history of radiation to the head and neck area or oral pathology obstructing the glottic view
- American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) I-IV
- Has provided written informed consent
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| M D Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
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