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Intubation success during direct laryngoscopy directly correlates with the view of the glottis. The Flexiblade is a new laryngoscope blade that mounts on a traditional laryngoscope handle. The distal half of the blade can be flexed up to 30 degrees during intubation by an attached lever. In this study from Hong Kong, the Flexiblade was compared with the standard Macintosh blade in 200 elective general anesthesia patients, aged 18 to 65, without anticipated difficult intubation.
After patients received general anesthesia and neuromuscular blockade, direct laryngoscopy was performed with a size 3 Macintosh laryngoscope blade and a similarly sized Flexiblade, in random order. Intubation was performed using the second blade and was supplemented …