Experiences with the Lo Pro Adult GlideScope Video Laryngoscope for Orotracheal Intubation

 

 

Klaus Krasser, MD,¹ Anita Moser, MD,¹ Schirin M. Missaghi, MD,¹ Hildegard Lackner-Ausserhofer, MD,¹ and Ernst Zadrobilek, MD²

 

¹Staff Anesthetist and Intensive Care Physician, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

²Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Chairman of the Austrian Working Group for Airway Management and Director of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

 

Address correspondence and comments to Ernst Zadrobilek.

 

Received from the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Empress Elisabeth Hospital of the City of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

 

Statements

Supported solely by institutional sources. The authors have no financial relationship with the manufacturers or any of the distributors of the airway management devices used in this clinical investigation.

This clinical investigation was presented in part (under Best of Abstracts) at the Austrian International Congress, Linz, Austria, September 13-15, 2006.

 

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the staff anesthetists, the anesthesia residents, and the qualified anesthesia nurse who voluntary participated in this study.

 

Key Words

Tracheal intubation: GlideScope Video Laryngoscope.
 

Published: January 18, 2007.

 

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The correct citation of this clinical investigation for reference is:

Krasser K, Moser A, Missaghi SM, Lackner-Ausserhofer H, Zadrobilek E. Experiences with the Lo Pro Adult GlideScope Video Laryngoscope for orotracheal intubation. Internet Journal of Airway Management 4, 2006-2007.
Available from URL: http://www.adair.at/ijam/volume04/clinicalinvestigation01/default.htm
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Last updated: June 18, 2007.

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