The Use of the Shikani Video-Assisted Intubating Stylet Technique in Patients with Restricted Neck Mobility.

ABSTRACT: Among all the proposed predictors of difficult intubation defined by the intubation difficulty scale, head and neck movement (motility) stands out and plays as a crucial factor in determining the success rate and the degree of ease on endotracheal intubation. Aside from other airway tools (e.g., supraglottic airway devices), optical devices have been developed and applied for more than two decades and have shown their superiority to conventional direct laryngoscopes in many clinical scenarios and settings. Although awake/asleep flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy is still the gold standard in patients with unstable cervical spines immobilized with a rigid cervical collar or a halo neck brace, videolaryngoscopy has been repeatedly demonstrated to be advantageous. In this brief report, for the

SUBMITTER: Shih TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9498386 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature