Benefits and Applications
| Fully integrated high definition optics. | Magnified wide-angle (panoramic) view. No need for an external monitor. |
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| Simple to Use. Easy to Learn. | Improves intubation success rates, especially with C-L grades III and IV. |
| Guiding channel. | Easily leads ETT through vocal cords. |
| Anatomically shaped. | No Hyperextension. Less traumatic. |
| All-In-One design. | Ready to use. No set up. |
| Low Cost. | Full deployment and availability. No capital or maintenance costs. |
| Single Use. | No cross-contamination risk. |
| Built-in antifog system. | Guarantees clear view. |
| Optional Wireless Video System. | Excellent for training. |
Airtraq Applications
- 1. Anticipated difficult laryngoscopy
- 2. Patients at increased risk for difficult intubation (Anaesthesia, 2008, 63, pages 182-188).
- 3. As a rescue following failed direct laringoscopy (Anaesthesia, 2007, 62, 598-601).
- 4. Awake tracheal intubation (Anaesthesia, 2007, 62, pages 746-747).
- 5. Morbidly obese patients (British Jurnal of Anaesthesia 100(2):263-8(2008)).
- 6. Patients with Cervical Spine Immobilization (Anesthesiology 2007; 107:52-9).
- 7. Patients with Infectious Diseases (Internet Jurnal of Airway Management).
- 8. Emergency Cesarean Delivery (Anesthesiology 2007, 106:629-30).
- 9. Assistance with tracheostomy (Anaesthesia, 2007, 62, pages528-538).
- 10. Patients with coronary artery disease or arrhythmias (Anaesthesia, 2006;61:1093-1099).
- 11. Polytraumatized patiens (Remi-Article No. A49. Vol.6 No. 6, June 2006 and Intensive Care Medicine Volume 6 No. 7, July 2006).
- 12. Emergency and Prehospital laryngoscopy (Anaesthesia, 2007, 67 pages 1061-1065; Anaesthesia, 2008, 63, pages 26-31; Emerg.Med.Junal 2007;24;509-510 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.040469).
- 13. Patients requiring intubation in a sitting position.
- 14. ETT exchange in critically ill, difficult-to-intubate patients (Canadian Journal of Clinical Anesthesia (2007) 19,485-488).
- 15. Paediatric patients.
- 16. Placement of double-lumen endobronchial tubes (Canadian Journal of Anesthesia 54:955-957,2007).
- 17. ENT patients.
- 18. Fibrescope and gastroscope guidance.
- 19. Fibrescope teaching.
- 20. Foreign body removal.
