TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints7973
UR  - http://cogprints.org/7973/
A1  - Mendis, D 
A1  - Oates, J
Y1  - 2011/07/30/
N2  - The anaesthetic laryngoscope Airtraq is designed for the difficult airway. This disposable laryngoscope requires minimal cervical manipulation and unlike other common anaesthetic larynmgoscopes contains a channel for the guidance of an endotracheal tube.  This could also be used for diagnosis and biopsy under a general anaesthetic or potentially under a local anaesthetic in an outpatient setting for biopsies or the removal of hypopharyngeal foreign bodies via flexible biopsy forceps obviating the need for a general anaesthetic. Thus Airtraq could be included in the armoury of pre-existing direct laryngoscopes because of its virtue of minimal airway manipulation.
PB  - BS Kakkilaya
KW  - Difficult intubation; Laryngoscopy
TI  - The Application of Airtraq (fibreoptic intubation device) to Otolaryngology
AV  - public
ER  -

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