Use of a new Video-laryngoscope (McGRATH® X-blade™) in Patients with Difficult Airways
Arai, T.; Yamamoto, Y.; Kikuchi, A.; Okuda, Y.
MASUI. Japanese Journal of Anesthesiology 64(10): 1048-1051
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-4892 PMID: 26742406 Document Number: 681525
We describe the use of a new video-laryngoscope (McGRATH® X-blade™, X-blade) in patients with difficult airways. We report four cases of difficult and failed tracheal intubation using a conventional Machintosh laryngoscope and McGRATH® MAC in which tracheal intubation was accomplished swiftly and easily using a newly designed videolaryngoscope, the X-blade. The whole glottis was easily visible (Cormack-Lehane grade 1) with the X-blade. X-blade also provided a good view of glottic opening in a patient with obesity. We believe that X-blade is useful in patients with difficult airways.