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Tracheal intubation using Airway Scope® in two patients with difficult airway during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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The Airway Scope AWS-S100® (AWS, Pentax, Tokyo), a rigid video laryngoscope with integrated tube guidance that has recently become commercially available, helped the authors to establish airways in two patients with in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest, after failed attempts to intubate the patients using the Macintosh laryngoscope (that only commanded the Cormack–Lehane grade 4 glottic views), the laryngeal mask airway, and even surgical cricothyroidotomy for the second case. This showed the utility of the AWS in the management of difficult airway cases even in emergency settings.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan

    Mariko Baba, Junichi Fujimoto, Kenji Mizutani, Kyota Nakamura, Yoshitaka Kamiya, Masahide Ohtsuka & Takahisa Goto

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Baba, M., Fujimoto, J., Mizutani, K. et al. Tracheal intubation using Airway Scope® in two patients with difficult airway during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. J Anesth 24, 618–620 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00540-010-0955-9

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