Tracheal tubes lubricated with water to reduce sore throat after intubation: A randomized non-inferiority trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sore throat is common after tracheal intubation. Water can be used to lubricate tracheal tubes, but its benefit has not been validated. We thus did a randomised non-inferiority trial to test the hypothesis that a tube lubricated with water does not reduce sore throat after tracheal intubation.

Methods

We randomized female or male patients (n = 296) undergoing surgery in the ears or eyes to receive either a tube lubricated with water or a tube without lubrication for intubation. We assessed sore throat at 0, 2, 4, and 24 h after surgery; pharyngeal injury at 2 and 24 h after surgery; and respiratory infections within 7 days after surgery. For the incidence of sore throat within 24 h after surgery (primary outcome), the two-sided 90% confidence interval of the risk

SUBMITTER: Kim E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6171884 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature