The difficult paediatric airway: a new method of intubation using the laryngeal mask airway, Cook airway exchange catheter and tracheal intubation fibrescope.
We describe a new technique of intubation for use in difficult paediatric airway cases utilizing the laryngeal mask airway, a Cook Airway Exchange Catheter and a paediatric intubation fibrescope. This method has a number of potential advantages over previously described methods.
Thomas
P B
PB
Anaesthetic Department, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton, UK.
Parry
M G
MG
D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation / Q000379:methods*; D001176:Arthrogryposis; D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D017214:Laryngeal Masks; D007828:Laryngoscopy; D008297:Male