Anesth Analg 2008; 106:257-259
© 2008 International Anesthesia Research Society
doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000287647.46165.bc
GENERAL ARTICLES
The Pentax-AWS Video-Laryngoscope: The First Experience in One Hundred Patients
Takashi Asai, MD, PhD*,
Yoshiro Enomoto, MD ,
Keiko Shimizu, MD ,
Koh Shingu, MD*, and
Yasuhisa Okuda, MD
From the *Department of Anesthesiology, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi City, Osaka, Japan; Department of Anesthesiology, Koshigaya Hospital, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Saitama, Japan.
We studied the efficacy of the Pentax-AWS (Tokyo, Japan), a new portable, battery-operated video-laryngoscope, in 100 patients. It was possible to insert the blade of the Pentax-AWS and to see a full view of the glottis on the first attempt in 99 of 100 patients. In the remaining patient, insertion of the Pentax-AWS was abandoned because of a risk of damaging teeth that were already loose. Tracheal intubation was successful in 98 patients. The median time taken for tracheal intubation was 35 s (range, 5–120 s).
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