Ease of use of the Airway Scope vs the Bullard laryngoscope: a manikin study.

摘要

To the Editor: Rigid fibreoptic laryngoscopes provide a non-line-of-sight view of the airway. Tracheal intubation using a rigid laryngoscope is one of the alternative methods used for rescue intubation when physicians encounter a difficult airway. However, the device is not widely used, in part because it is perceived as being difficult to use. The Airway Scope (AWS; Pentax Corp., Tokyo, Japan) is a new intubation device that allows visualization of the glottis without requiring alignment of the oral, pharyngeal and tracheal axes. We recently compared the ease of intubation with the AWS compared to the Bullard laryngoscope (BLS; Circon ACMI, Stamford, CT, USA), as used by novice personnel with a manikin model.