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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007 99(6):920-921; doi:10.1093/bja/aem327
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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

Topical anaesthesia of the airway using TrachlightTM and MADgic® atomizer in patients with predicted difficult tracheal intubation

F. S. Xue*, Q. Y. Yang and X. Liao

Beijing, People's Republic of China

* E-mail: fruitxue@yahoo.com.cn

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Editor—Although awake intubation is the technique most commonly chosen in cases with a difficult airway, gag, cough, and laryngospasm in response to intubation may be troublesome.1 The MADgic® atomizer (Wolfe Tory Medical Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, USA) is a new device for spraying topical anaesthetics in the laryngotracheal region, which provides atomized topical solution directly to the mucosa of the airway. The applicator portion can also be adapted to an individual patient's anatomy.2 However, use of MADgic® atomizer to spray local anaesthetics in an airway requires direct laryngoscopy which may not only result in oropharyngeal . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Trachlight guided topicalization of airway and intubation in the same setting.
Rajeev Sharma
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 23 Sep 2008 [Full text]
Reply to letter of Dr. Rajeev Sharma
Fu-Shan Xue, et al.
British Journal of Anaesthesia, 29 Dec 2008 [Full text]