Making endotracheal intubation easy and successful, particularly in unexpected difficult airway

Successful blind digital intubation with a bougie introducer in a patient with an unexpected difficult airway.

Encountering unexpected difficult airway: relationship with the intubation difficulty scale

BACKGROUND An unexpected difficult intubation can be very challenging and if it is not managed properly, it may expose the encountered patient to significant risks. The intubation difficulty scale (IDS) has been used as a validated method to evaluate a global degree of intubation difficulty. The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of unexpected difficult intub...

Comparison of bougie-assisted intubation with traditional endotracheal intubation in a simulated difficult airway.

OBJECTIVE To compare the success and ease of bougie-assisted intubation (BAI) with those of traditional endotracheal intubation (ETI) in a simulated difficult airway (20.4 seconds for BAI vs. 16.7 seconds for ETI, p = 0.102). METHODS This was a prospective, randomized, crossover, single-blind study comparing BAI with ETI in a simulated difficult airway. The 35 participants included paramedics...

The air-Q(®) intubating laryngeal airway for endotracheal intubation in children with difficult airway: our experience.

SIR—We read with interest and true appreciation both the article by Jagannathan N et al. (1) and the comment by Parotto M et al. (2) as well as the recent article by Jagannathan N et al. (3) where they reported their experience with air-Q intubating laryngeal airway (ILA) (Cookgas , LLC St Louis, MO, Mercury Medical , Clearwater, FL, USA) as a conduit for laryngeal mask-assisted tracheal intuba...

Difficult Endotracheal Intubation—Scales and Causes

The aim of the study is to assess the possibility of intubation in each patient, the lyche to be difficult intubation, to find all the causes of the difficult intubation, to find and apply appropriate scales for difficult intubation, to estimate the frequency of difficult intubation. Endotracheal intubation is the basic reanimation procedure performed both in hospital and out-of-hospital settin...