In this randomized clinical trial, GlideScope intubations were faster and easier when a restricted glottic view was used.
Intubation with hypercurved video laryngoscopes (VLs) often takes longer to complete because of the challenge of manipulating the endotracheal tube through the glottic opening. With direct laryngoscopy, a full glottic view optimizes intubation speed and success. It is unclear whether this relationship is true for hyper-angulated VLs.
Investigators randomized 163 patients undergoing elective surgery to GlideScope intubation with either a full or restricted glottic view (100% vs. <50% on the percentage of glottic opening [POGO] scale). Excluded were patients younger than 18 years or older than 75, as well as those who were morbidly obese or pregnant, required awake intubation techniques or rapid sequence induction, or had known predictors of d…
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DisclosuresConsultant / Advisory boardVerathon, Inc. (Scientific Advisory Board Member)
Editorial boardsScientific American Emergency Medicine; Manual of Emergency Airway Management (Editor-in-Chief)
Leadership positions in professional societiesPrograms Subcommittee Chair for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine–Residency and Fellowship Fair
DisclosuresConsultant / Advisory boardVerathon, Inc. (Scientific Advisory Board Member)
Editorial boardsScientific American Emergency Medicine; Manual of Emergency Airway Management (Editor-in-Chief)
Leadership positions in professional societiesPrograms Subcommittee Chair for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine–Residency and Fellowship Fair