Facilitated blind intubation using a transtracheal guide wire
Heslet, L.; Christensen, K.S.; Sanchez, R.; Schlichting, J.
Danish Medical Bulletin 32(5): 275-277
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0907-8916 PMID: 4053701 Document Number: 254872
A method of tracheal intubation facilitated by using a transtracheal guide-wire is illustrated by three selected case stories. In two cases, the patients were blindly intubated and in the third case, with epiglottitis, the aditus layngis could be identified only by use of the guidewire. Using a laryngoscope and Magill's forceps, intubation was in this case performed without complications. It is suggested that the method applied in cases of difficult intubation may reduce the rate of acute tracheostomies.