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#JanuAIRWAY Day 7. Equipment. Laryngoscopy is an essential skill for airway managers. Let’s start with #OnePagers looking at a classification of the different types of laryngoscopes
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A fundamental understanding of ‘position’ theory can help e.g. the two-curve theory for videolaryngoscopy. Primary Curve either needs to be flattened or ‘looked around’. Here’s some #OnePagers
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2 basic techniques direct (DL) & video (VL), but different scopes require specific techniques. We may even combine multiple scopes (there’s no universally agreed term for this, here we’ve called it Flexi-Assisted Laryngoscopy (FL) Here’s some #OnePagers
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What are we trying to see? Here’s a #OnePager on the basics of direct laryngoscopy views. It gets trickier with indirect laryngsocpy. There is no agreed classification system. Here’s #OnePager on a potential model (*this does not constitute DAS endorsement) #JanuAIRWAY 4/6

Here are some papers / links that you might find interesting: -
1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
2.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18211447/
3.link.springer.com/article/10.100…
5.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33538438/
If you have any others of interest, tweet them to us for inclusion next time!
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Hope that helps. Tomorrow we'll look at Capnography. See you then! 6/6
*Disclaimer: Inclusion of content (equipment, techniques and scoring systems etc.) in #JanuAIRWAY does not constitute DAS endorsement
systems etc.) in #JanuAIRWAY does not constitute DAS endorsement