Laryngoscope based lighted stylet for intubation: An innovation

Lighted stylet tracheal intubation: a review.

Tracheal intubation is older than the recognized history of general anesthesia itself. In the late 18th century, The Royal Humane Society of London used tracheal intubation for resuscitating the near-drowned. Approximately 100 years later, MacEwan (1) performed a digital tracheal intubation in an awake patient before a chloroform and air general endotracheal anesthetic for the resection of a to...

A comparative study between the laryngoscope and lighted stylet in tracheal intubation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Approaching the airways with a laryngoscope can cause different types of injuries. The objective of the present study was to determine whether lighted stylet tracheal intubation can be a less traumatic alternative for patients when compared to direct laryngoscopy. METHODS Ninety-eight patients between 16 and 88 years and physical status ASA I and II participated in t...

Tracheal intubation by novice staff: the direct vision laryngoscope or the lighted stylet (Trachlight)?

OBJECTIVE To compare the ease of use of the direct vision laryngoscope and the lighted stylet (Trachlight) by novice staff. METHODS Ten novice medical officers (MOs) performed orotracheal intubations using either the conventional direct vision laryngoscope (DL) or a lighted stylet device (Trachlight). They performed their DL intubations during the first phase of the study, followed by the Tra...

Comparing Shikani Optical Stylet and Macintosh Laryngoscope for Orotracheal Intubation

Awake intubation with video-assisted laryngoscope or intubating stylet

Corresponding author: Jin-Kyoung Kim, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50, Ilwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3410-2477, Fax: 82-2-3410-6626, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial L...