Open AccessA Comparison Between the Bonfils Intubation Fiberscope and McCoy Laryngoscope for Tracheal Intubation in Patients with a Simulated Difficult Airway
Author(s) -
Hairil Rizal Abdullah,
L.W. Teo,
Andrew Marriott,
Theodore Gar-Ling Wong
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e3182a46fa9
Subject(s) - medicine , intubation , anesthesia , tracheal intubation , airway , fiberscope , airway management , surgery
The Bonfils Intubation Fibrescope (Bonfils) and the McCoy laryngoscope (McCoy) are airway devices designed to assist tracheal intubation in difficult cases. Individually, both the Bonfils and McCoy have demonstrated superiority to the Macintosh laryngoscope in a simulated difficult airway. In this study, we compared the Bonfils with the McCoy laryngoscope in patients whose tracheal intubation had been intentionally hindered. Our primary hypothesis was that there is a significant difference in the rate of success for tracheal intubation when using the Bonfils or McCoy laryngoscope in patients with an intentionally hindered airway.