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Research type
Research Study
Full title
Anaesthetic pre-operative Assessment of the adult Airway and Non-Specialist video Assessment: a method-comparison study
IRAS ID
294205
Contact name
Thomas Woodland
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Bristol
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
Patients that are due to undergo an operation that requires general anaesthesia, attend a pre-operative assessment clinic. This allows for patient information to be gathered, in-order to help anticipate any potential problems or delays. One area of assessment is a simple anatomical and functional assessment of the patient's airway. This is designed to help identify patients that might have an airway that is difficult for anaesthetists to insert a breathing tube into.
The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak resulted in many face-to-face services moving to a virtual service provision model. Virtual anaesthetic pre-operative assessment has the potential to impact on the opportunities for, and accuracy of, airway assessment. It is not known if virtual airway assessment correlates with face-to-face assessment.
This study aims to compare virtual assessment of the airway with that of traditional in-person anaesthetic assessment. We also aim to determine how often video assessment is unacceptable, what factors make the assessment unacceptable, and what recommendations can be drawn from these findings to optimise the assessment.
REC name
South Central - Oxford A Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/SC/0120
Date of REC Opinion
16 Apr 2021
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion