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The Role of Optical Stylets

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Optical stylets are versatile airway tools now offered in many different designs that are useful for placing endotracheal tubes (ETTs) and confirming location, either used independently, with laryngoscopes, or with supraglottic airways (SGAs). There are wide variations in optical stylet length, malleability, and light sources. Their only common feature is that they provide imaging through an ETT. As they are passed beyond the vocal cords they all permit tracheoscopy.

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Richard Levitan receives royalties on the FPS Levitan Optical Stylet manufactured and sold by Clarus Medical, Minneapolis, MN.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 11th and Walnut Street, 239 Thompson Building, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, USA

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  1. Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, 60637, Illinois, USA

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  2. University of Toronto, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Manage, Department of Anesthesia, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, M5G 2C4, Ontario, Canada

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    Andranik Ovassapian

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Levitan, R. (2013). The Role of Optical Stylets. In: Glick, D., Cooper, R., Ovassapian, A. (eds) The Difficult Airway. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92849-4_9

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