Laryngoscopy in space travel.
The need for laryngoscopy aboard a spacecraft on a mission of one to three years is anticipated. Therefore, the inexperience of the potential endoscopists and the problems they face in the free-floating environment of space are considered. A simplified coaxial intubation technique employing a split-apart modification of a Jako-type laryngoscope is suggested.
D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000628:therapy; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D007818:Laryngeal Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D007819:Laryngeal Edema / Q000628:therapy; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D007828:Laryngoscopy / Q000379:methods; D011015:Pneumonia, Aspiration / Q000628:therapy; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness