creators_name: Mendis, D 
creators_name: Oates, J
creators_id: dulanimendis@yahoo.com
editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas
editors_id: BS Kakkilaya
type: journale
datestamp: 2012-11-09 17:37:20
lastmod: 2012-11-09 17:37:20
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title: The Application of Airtraq (fibreoptic intubation device) to Otolaryngology
ispublished: pub
subjects: OJHAS
full_text_status: public
keywords: Difficult intubation; Laryngoscopy
abstract: 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.
date: 2011-07-30
date_type: published
publication: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
volume: 10
number: 2
publisher: BS Kakkilaya
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Mendis, D  and Oates, J  (2011) The Application of Airtraq (fibreoptic intubation device) to Otolaryngology.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/7973/1/2011-2-16.pdf