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Low‐skill fibreoptic intubation: use of the Aintree Catheter with the classic LMA
Author(s) -
Higgs A.,
Clark E.,
Premraj K.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04226.x
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , catheter , anesthesia , airway , tracheal intubation , surgery , laryngeal masks , supraglottic airway , flexible bronchoscopy , airway management , laryngeal mask airway
Summary We describe a series of patients in whom anaesthetists – many of whom were trainees and had no prior experience of using the Aintree Intubation Catheter – successfully intubated the tracheas of patients in whom conventional attempts at intubation had failed. This was achieved by passing a fibrescope loaded with an Aintree Intubation Catheter through a classic Laryngeal Mask Airway (cLMA ™ ), which had already been placed to maintain the patient's airway.