Fiberoptic airway management

Fiberoptic airway management.

Despite many recent innovations in equipment for difficult airway management, it remains the leading cause of the most devastating adverse outcomes in anesthesia. Fiberoptic airway management is among the most versatile of techniques for difficult airway management. It requires a greater degree of skill than most other techniques, however. Training, practice, and adherence to a few basic princi...

Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy versus Video Laryngoscopy in Pediatric Airway Management.

The primary goal of pediatric airway management is to ensure oxygenation and ventilation. Routine airway management in healthy pediatric patients is normally easy in experienced hands. Really difficult pediatric airway is rare and usually is associated with anatomically and physiologically important findings such as congenital abnormalities and syndromes, trauma, infection, swelling and burns. ...

Lee fiberoptic intubating airway for facilitating orotracheal fiberoptic intubation

Corresponding author: Sang-Kyi Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School & Chonbuk National University Hospital, 20, Gunji-ro, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju 561-710, Korea. Tel: 82-63-250-1250, Fax: 82-63-250-1240, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Co...

An Airway which Facilitates intubation with a Fiberoptic Laryngoscope

Airway regional anesthesia for awake fiberoptic intubation.

Providing anesthetic care to the patient with a difficult airway keenly interests anesthesiologists and is a situation that often provokes much anxiety and trepidation. However, dealing effectively and safely with these patients is a skill that all anesthesiologists should be familiar with and are expected to perform with competency. Difficult airways arise from multiple causes. Access to the o...