Facial Analysis to Classify Difficult Intubation
Recruiting
Observational Study
Difficult Intubation
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
No Study Drug
Researchers observe your health over time — no experimental treatment is given.
At a Glance
- Age
- 18 – 99
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Observational
- Participants needed
- 3,500 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Other
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About This Trial
The aim of this project is to develop a computer algorithm that can accurately predict how easy or difficult it is to intubate a patient based upon digital photographs from three different perspectives. Such an application can provide a consistent, quantitative measure of intubation difficulty by analyzing facial features in captured photographs - features which have previously been shown to corre…
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients requiring endotracheal intubation
* Patients consenting to acquisition of photographic images of the head and neck
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients who had undergone head or neck surgery
* Patients in whom central venous catheters or other interventions that prevent f…
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