Anesthesiologists should not start with the consideration of how to handle difficult intubation, but rather the other variables that affect outcome of patients presenting with impaired cardiopulmonary ...

Across awake tracheal intubations using videolaryngoscopy for suspected difficult airways, the overall success rate was high. Overall or first-attempt success rates did not differ between ...

Intubation times were significantly faster with the AP Advance laryngoscope than with the GlideScope in mannequins with difficult airways, according to a study published in the Sept. 2011 issue of ...

Video laryngoscopy for the urgent intubation of neonates led to higher rates of success on the first attempt than direct laryngoscopy, a single-center randomized trial from Ireland found. Of more than ...

Hypoxemia is the most common complication of emergency endotracheal intubation of children, with an incidence of up to 50%. In this randomized trial of children under 16 years, nasal high-flow oxygen ...

Whether video laryngoscopy as compared with direct laryngoscopy increases the likelihood of successful tracheal intubation on the first attempt among critically ill adults is uncertain. In a ...