Re-usable and sheathed laryngoscope blades

Bacterial contamination of re-usable laryngoscope blades during the course of daily anaesthetic practice.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are largely preventable through risk analysis and modification of practice. Anaesthetic practice plays a limited role in the prevention of HAIs, although laryngoscope use and decontamination is an area of concern. We aimed to assess the level of microbial contamination of re-usable laryngoscope blades at a public hospital in South Af...

Amenable Intubation by Disposable Laryngoscope Blades.

Design evaluation of commonly used rigid and levering laryngoscope blades.

BACKGROUND The shape of a laryngoscope blade affects the exposition of the larynx. This study evaluates and compares some rigid and levering blade designs based on previous investigative X-ray laryngoscopic studies. METHODS Five rigid laryngoscope blades (Miller #3, Standard Macintosh #3, Classical Macintosh #4 and English-Macintosh #3 and #4) and two levering laryngoscope blades (McCoy in ne...

A comparison of the TruView EVO2 and macintosh laryngoscope blades

Intubation is one of the basic procedures of anesthesia. The reported frequency of difficult intubations is between 1.5% and 13%, which is a problem that requires a prompt solution. Although the likelihood of a difficult intubation can be estimated from preoperative measurements and scoring systems, obtaining direct access to the glottis during preoperative direct laryngoscopy can be difficult....

amenable intubation by disposable laryngoscope blades

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