Laryngeal Injuries After Anesthesia Induction With Three Different Sevoflurane Concentrations (Without Muscle Relaxant)

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Anesthesia induction and tracheal intubation can be performed with and without neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs). Tracheal intubation can be performed with sevoflurane instead of NMBAs; intubating conditions are similar and the incidence of vocal cord injuries are similar, too.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Rostock
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Sevoflurane

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• ear-nose-throat surgery

• orotracheal intubation for surgery of the ear

• ASA I-III

Exclusion Criteria:

• obesity

• allergy against the study drugs

• patients with a known or suspected difficult airway

• diseases of the larynx