title: Comparison of a disposable bougie versus a newly designed malleable bougie in the intubation of a difficult manikin airway.
abstract: The endotracheal bougie is used for difficult intubations when only a minimal glottic view is obtained. Standard bougies are designed for use during direct, line-of-sight viewing of the glottic opening. With videolaryngoscopy, intubators "see around the corner", thus requiring a bougie which can be shaped to follow a significant curve. A malleable bougie with an imbedded internal wire was created to enable intubators to shape the curve to best fit a difficult airway. This pilot study examined the malleable bougie compared to the SunMed bougie in a simulated difficult airway intubation using video laryngoscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-4455, USA. bboedeker@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Ben H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Boedeker
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bernhagen
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: W Bosseau
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D004209:Disposable Equipment; D055119:Elastic Modulus; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D008348:Manikins