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Author Spotlight: Advancing Awake Nasotracheal Intubation with Flexible Video Rhino-Laryngoscopes
Published on: August 2, 2024
Steerable Intubation Guide in Combination with Video-Laryngoscope for Intubating Patients with Anterior Airway
Christian Bohringer1, Mathew Grow1, Hong Liu1
1Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Abstract:
Management of the difficult airway remains one of the most relevant and challenging clinical situations encountered by anesthesiologists. Intubation with a video-laryngoscope is often difficult in patients with anterior airway even when the larynx is readily visualized. This has led to the combined use of a video-laryngoscope together with a flexible bronchoscope for endotracheal intubation. The disposable flexible bronchoscopes that are currently available on the market however are not rigid enough to reliably guide the endotracheal tube into the larynx. A new steerable intubation guide is now available that is very useful when intubating a patient with an anterior airway with a video-laryngoscope.
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