Video-intuboscopy gives a video display of the view from the tip of the tracheal tube during conventional laryngoscopy, and was developed particularly to assist the immediate management of unexpected difficult intubation. A lightweight, malleable video-optical intubation stylet transmits the view from the stylet tip onto a monitor. It is inserted in the tracheal tube before starting anaesthesia...

We read with interest the recent article of Almarakbi et al1 regarding the use of an additional conduit to facilitate tracheal intubation with GlideScope videolaryngoscope (GSVL) in patients with a normal airway. They showed that compared with the standard intubation procedure with the GSVL, this modified technique made the passage of the tracheal tube easier and intubation time shorter, withou...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Bronchial blockers are simple alternative methods of facilitating placement of devices for one-lung ventilation. The Coopdech bronchial blocker (Daiken Medical, Osaka, Japan) has been clinically introduced to perform one-lung ventilation with a single-lumen tracheal tube [1]. The distal tip of the Coopdech bronchial blocker has a pre-formed angul...

Rhythmic patterns of compression and reinflation of the thin-walled hollow tubes of the insect tracheal system have been observed in a number of insects. These movements may be important for facilitating the transport and exchange of respiratory gases, but observing and characterizing the dynamics of internal physiological systems within live insects can be challenging due to their size and exo...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the outcome following stenting over a period of 10 years in patients with chronic laryngotracheal stenosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2000-2010, out of 111 patients with laryngotracheal trauma, 71 underwent tracheal T-stenting for laryngotracheal stenosis in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the Government Medical...

Corresponding author: Chul Soo Park, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 505, Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-040, Korea. Tel: 82-2-2258-2236, Fax: 82-2-537-1951, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Com...