Role of Indirect Laryngoscopes in Difficult Airway Management

Abstract

  Recently, many video or optical intubation devices have become clinically available. These new laryngoscopes can be divided into two categories, those with an integrated tube guide, and those without. I believe that the laryngoscope with the tube guide will change airway management in the near future, replacing the conventional Macintosh laryngoscope, and will thus alter the difficult airway guidelines. In this manuscript, recent data appearing in published papers are introduced.