Evaluation of the GlideScope Ranger Video Laryngoscope in Clinical Practice

 

 

Klaus Krasser, MD,¹ Schirin M. Missaghi, MD,¹ Anita Moser, MD,¹ and Hildegard Lackner-Ausserhofer, MD¹, 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

The authors have no financial relationship with the manufacturers or any of the distributors of the airway management devices used in this clinical report.

This clinical report was presented in part at the Difficult Airway Society Annual Meeting, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, November 21-23, 2007.

 

Acknowledgements

The authors thank the staff anesthetists, the anesthesia residents, and the qualified anesthesia nurse who voluntary participated in this study and the manufacturer of the GlideScope Ranger Video Laryngoscope for making this device available free of charge for study purposes.

 

Key Words

Tracheal intubation: GlideScope Ranger Video Laryngoscope.
 

Published: September 8, 2007.

 

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The correct citation of this clinical report for reference is:

Krasser K, Missaghi SM, Moser A, Lackner-Ausserhofer H, and Zadrobilek E. Evaluation of the GlideScope Ranger Video Laryngoscope in clinical practice.

Internet Journal of Airway Management 4, 2006-2007.
Available from URL: http://www.adair.at/ijam/volume04/clinicalreport02/default.htm
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Last updated: September 8, 2007.

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Abstract

Introduction

Materials and Methods

Results

Discussion

References

Implications for Clinical Practice

Economic Considerations