The levering laryngoscope

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...

The Laryngoscope

Classics from the laryngoscope.

This classic article meticulously detailed the spiral ganglion cell (SGC) populations in 100 patients with variable degrees of hearing loss and known diagnoses to assess the correlation with speech discrimination scores and to hypothesize upon the inherent ability to stimulate the remaining spiral ganglia successfully with cochlear implants. Important observations from this study were that spir...

The Laryngoscope in Medicine

My object in writing the following short paper is, not to attempt to say anything new or original, but rather to repeat what has been often and well said, and once more to show how great is the help given, by an accurate use of the laryngoscope, in the diagnosis and treatment of otherwise obscure and untreatable cases. The first man who appears to have conceived it possible to illuminate the va...

Advantages Of The Airtraq Laryngoscope

Possibly the most daunting task faced by critical care medical personnel are emergency intubations. Often times you are presented with a patient you are unfamiliar with who needs to be intubated in order to increase their chances of survival. In an attempt to cut costs many rural hospitals staff their emergency rooms with personnel whose intubation skills may be marginal at best and an experien...