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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2008 100(1):116-119; doi:10.1093/bja/aem303
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Use of the McGrath® videolaryngoscope in the management of difficult and failed tracheal intubation

B. Shippey*,{dagger}, D. Ray{dagger} and D. McKeown{dagger}

Department of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK

* Corresponding author. Department of Anaesthesia, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 OSU, UK. E-mail: benshippey{at}mac.com

Difficult laryngoscopy and failed tracheal intubation are associated with complications which can be serious, and on occasion, life-threatening. We report three cases of difficult and failed tracheal intubation using a conventional Macintosh laryngoscope in which tracheal intubation was accomplished swiftly and easily using a new design of videolaryngoscope, the McGrath®.

Keywords: anaesthetic techniques, laryngoscopy; equipment, laryngoscopes

{dagger} Declaration of interest. All three investigators have assisted Aircraft Medical in the development of the McGrath® videolaryngoscope. The employing authority of the investigators has received payment from Aircraft Medical for professional advice given by Drs McKeown and Ray on a consultative basis. Disposable laryngoscope blades were provided free of charge by Aircraft Medical for this clinical evaluation.


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