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Chapter 7 - Video Laryngoscopy Equipment and Techniques

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2019

By
Agnes I. Hunyady ,
James Peyton ,
Sarah Lee  and
Raymond Park
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

The term “video laryngoscopy” in its literal sense refers to the airway management technique whereby the larynx is visualized for intubation using a device that has a video camera at the tip of its blade. It is often used interchangeably with the term “indirect laryngoscopy”: visualization of the larynx without alignment of pharyngeal, laryngeal, and oral axes, using either “chip-on-tip technology” or a series of reflecting surfaces to look around the corner. The difference between the two terms is best appreciated by briefly looking at the history of laryngoscopy and the evolution of the devices used to facilitate it.

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Management of the Difficult Pediatric Airway , pp. 69 - 89
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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