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
Qualifiers
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 design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Not listed
Trial groups
Sponsors and collaborators
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