About this trial
The overall objective of the study is to evaluate and analyze major and minor incidents during airway management in adults under anaesthesia care at all study sites. The patient characteristics, type of airway management is recorded and if airway management-related incidents occur, they are analyzed in more detail to improve patient safety in the future.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
All adult patients requiring airway management under anaesthesia care for elective, semi-elective, urgent or emergency diagnostic procedures or interventions. Airway management includes awake and asleep tracheal intubation, insertion of supraglottic airway devices, and face mask ventilation.
Patients older than 18 years of age
Informed consent given or general consent in place, according to local ethics committee requirements.
Disqualifiers
Refusal to give consent or withdrawal of consent.
Patients <18 years.
Trial population
All adult patients (\<18 years of age) that undergo in-hospital airway management under anaesthesia care who do not object to the use of their data collected for the purpose of this study.
Trial design
Cohort
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Number of airway management related incidents
Primary study outcome is the number of anaesthesia cases with at least one airway management related incidents in adult patients under anaesthesia care.
Secondary outcomes
The Incidences of the individual major incidents
Secondary study outcome parameters are the incidences of the major critical events and the number of incidents per case incidents.
The Incidences of the individual minor incidents
Secondary study outcome parameters are the incidences of the minor critical events and the number of incidents per case incidents.
Sponsors and contacts
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Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Lead sponsor
University of Bern
Collaborator
University of Lausanne Hospitals
Collaborator
Kantonsspital Aarau
Collaborator
Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Collaborator
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Collaborator