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Video beats direct laryngoscopy for intubation--even for experts

PulmCCM

Video laryngoscopy was introduced in 2001 as a technique for orotracheal intubation. The real world success rates by operators experienced with intubation remained unknown. In the relatively few studies comparing video to direct laryngoscopy, intubations were usually performed by inexperienced trainees, and sample sizes were small.

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Assume the position … ??Awkward Airway Positions

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Most airway management is done with the patient supine and on a table. Importantly, you should practice airway support and BVM facing the patient "from the south" (facing cephalad). You may be assisting an airway manager (who's in the vertex position) who needs extra jaw thrust or lift. NREMT (2008).

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Airway Choices in the Era of Many Choices

EM Updates

The primary tool for emergency airway management then became the traditional laryngoscope , a device little improved since the 1940s, until the advent of video laryngoscopy in the early 2000s which changed everything. HAVL , which uses a blade that goes around the tongue, requires that the operator look at the screen.