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The Bullard laryngoscope is a rigid fiber-optic scope that permits intubation with minimal mouth opening or cervical spine movement. Researchers evaluated this device used with an independently styletted endotracheal tube (ISETT) or a new, hollow multifunctional intubating stylet (MFIS). The MFIS allows passage of an intubating catheter over which the endotracheal tube is passed.
Eighty elective anesthesia patients underwent general anesthesia with motor paralysis and were then placed in a semi-rigid collar to simulate difficult intubation. They were then intubated with a Bullard laryngoscope used with either an ISETT or MFIS. Ninety-eight percent of patients had a Cormack-Lehane grade of II or III (Grade I, full view of glottis; II, partial…