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Anaesthesiology
Laryngoscopes and tracheal intubation equipment
Built from Al-Shaikh — Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Peri-operative Medicine, 6e
What’s inside
7 sections · 63 slides
Overview
- What this topic covers
Laryngoscopes
A lit blade to bring the vocal cords into direct view
- What a laryngoscope is and does
- Performing direct laryngoscopy
- Two parts: handle and blade
- A wide range of laryngoscope blades
- Straight vs curved blade: how each lifts the larynx
- Using a curved versus a straight blade
- The Macintosh blade in detail
- Where the light comes from: two incompatible systems
- Why the light system matters — and why they don't mix
- Standard bulb blade versus fibreoptic blade
- The left-sided Macintosh blade
- Left-sided Macintosh blade
- The McCoy laryngoscope — a hinged, adjustable tip
- McCoy laryngoscope with hinged tip
- Seward-blade McCoy laryngoscope
- Problems in practice and safety features
- Key-points marker used in the source book
- Single-use fibreoptic plastic blades on a handle
- Laryngoscopes — the essentials
Flexible Intubation Videoscopes
A steerable camera on a cord that bends around corners
- What flexible videoscopes are and why they matter
- What flexible videoscopes are used for
- The Ambu aScope 4 Broncho — a worked example
- Single-use flexible intubation endoscope
- The control handle — three working parts
- Loading and railroading the tracheal tube
- Fibreoptic nasal intubation in progress
- Vocal-cord view through a flexible scope
Videolaryngoscopes
A rigid blade with a camera at the tip — seeing around the corner
- What a videolaryngoscope is
- How designs differ
- Videolaryngoscope with a Macintosh-shaped blade
- Two families, split by how the tube is steered
- Channelled videolaryngoscope
- Channelled videolaryngoscope with separate blade
- Nonchannelled videolaryngoscope
- Why videolaryngoscopes help — and the caveat
Intubation Aids and Adjuncts
Forceps, stylets, bougies and catheters that steer or exchange the tube
- Magill forceps
- A tray of common intubation aids
- Small but useful adjuncts
- Introducer (stylet) and gum-elastic bougie
- Introducers and a tube loaded with a stylet
- Intubating bougie with a Coude tip
- Airway exchange catheter (AEC)
- Airway exchange catheter
- Aintree intubation catheter
- Aintree intubation catheter
Retrograde Intubation
A rescue route: guidewire from the neck, upward and out
- What retrograde intubation is and when it is used
- Components of the retrograde intubation set
- How retrograde intubation works, step by step
- Retrograde intubation set
- Problems in practice and safety features
Summary and Self-Assessment
- Bringing it together
- Why does the light fail with a standard (black) blade, and how does a fibreoptic (green) blade avoid it?
- What are the key facts about retrograde intubation?
- Suggested Further Reading
- Essentials of Equipment in Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Perioperative Medicine