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Use of the McCoy laryngoscope or fingers to facilitate fibrescope‐aided tracheal intubation
Author(s) -
Asai T.,
Matsumoto S.,
Shingu K.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1998.00532.x
Subject(s) - epiglottis , medicine , glottis , intubation , laryngoscopes , tracheal intubation , tracheal tube , surgery , larynx
In fibrescope‐aided tracheal intubation, it can be difficult to advance a tube over a fibrescope, because its passage may be impeded by the epiglottis, arytenoids or pyriform fossa. In two patients with difficult intubation, after successful insertion of a fibrescope into the trachea, it was impossible to advance the tube over the fibrescope. Fibrescope‐aided tracheal intubation was accomplished by shifting the epiglottis anteriorly and ‘opening up’ the glottis either by fingers or the McCoy laryngoscope.