title: Assessment of TruviewPCD videolaryngoscope for intubation in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this observational prospective study was to evaluate the usefulness of TruviewPCD for tracheal intubation in clinical practice, and to provide data for future studies.
  
  
  METHODS
  A study was conducted on 86 consecutive children undergoing ear, nose and throat (ENT) or paediatric procedures under general anaesthesia with tracheal intubation. Children with two or more difficult airway criteria were excluded. A descriptive statistical analysis was performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighty-three patients were successfully intubated with TruviewPCD. Demographic data: Age 4.9 (2.8) years, weight 19.5 (7.7)kg. Seventy-nine children needed one attempt and four required two attempts at intubation. Time for glottis view and tracheal intubation was 10.8 (5.6) and 30 [27.9-37] seconds, respectively. Eighty-one patients were classified as easy or very easy to intubate, and only two cases were considered difficult. No significant complications were registered.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  TruviewPCD is a good device for paediatric airway management. It would be interesting to have an intermediate blade between size 1 and 2, as the difference between both is too wide.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España; ANESTARRACO Grupo de investigación de Anestestesiología y Reanimación del Institut d'Investigacions Sanitàries Pere Virgili (IISPV), Tarragona, España. Electronic address: cristobal_anez@urv.cat.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Añez Simón
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España; ANESTARRACO Grupo de investigación de Anestestesiología y Reanimación del Institut d'Investigacions Sanitàries Pere Virgili (IISPV), Tarragona, España.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Barbero Roldán
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España; ANESTARRACO Grupo de investigación de Anestestesiología y Reanimación del Institut d'Investigacions Sanitàries Pere Virgili (IISPV), Tarragona, España.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Serrano Gonzalvo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España; ANESTARRACO Grupo de investigación de Anestestesiología y Reanimación del Institut d'Investigacions Sanitàries Pere Virgili (IISPV), Tarragona, España.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Holgado Pascual
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España; ANESTARRACO Grupo de investigación de Anestestesiología y Reanimación del Institut d'Investigacions Sanitàries Pere Virgili (IISPV), Tarragona, España.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Farre Nebot
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario de Tarragona Joan XXIII, Tarragona, España; Departamento de Enfermería de la Universidad Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, España.
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: de Molina-Fernández
mesh_terms: D058109:Airway Management; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014741:Video Recording
keywords: Airway management; Anestesia pediátrica; Intubación traqueal; Manejo vía aérea; Paediatric anaesthesia; Tracheal intubation; TruviewPCD; Videolaringoscopio; Videolaryngoscope