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Chapter 8 - Flexible Bronchoscopy Techniques: Nasal and Oral Approaches

from Section 2 - Devices and Techniques to Manage the Abnormal Airway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2019

By
Paul Stricker  and
Pete G. Kovatsis
Edited by
Narasimhan Jagannathan  and
John E. Fiadjoe
Narasimhan Jagannathan
Affiliation:
Northwestern University Medical School, Illinois
John E. Fiadjoe
Affiliation:
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Summary

Flexible fiberoptic intubation was first described in 1967 and has since become a mainstay in intubations of the difficult airway. The first flexible fiberoptic scope for ETTs greater than 4.5 mm ID was developed in the early 1970s. In the late 1980s, an ultrathin flexible fiberoptic laryngoscope was introduced, allowing intubation with ETTs as small as 2.5 mm ID. Multiple authors have since described the flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope’s safe and effective use in both normal and difficult pediatric airways. Others have described a variety of intubating methods using the flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope. The flexible fiberscope is a device born of innovations in fiberoptic technology.

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Management of the Difficult Pediatric Airway , pp. 90 - 102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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