@misc{cogprints7973, volume = {10}, number = {2}, month = {July}, author = {D Mendis and J Oates}, editor = {Dr Srinivas Kakkilaya}, title = {The Application of Airtraq (fibreoptic intubation device) to Otolaryngology}, publisher = {BS Kakkilaya}, year = {2011}, journal = {Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences}, keywords = {Difficult intubation; Laryngoscopy}, url = {http://cogprints.org/7973/}, abstract = {The anaesthetic laryngoscope Airtraq is designed for the difficult airway. This disposable laryngoscope requires minimal cervical manipulation and unlike other common anaesthetic larynmgoscopes contains a channel for the guidance of an endotracheal tube. This could also be used for diagnosis and biopsy under a general anaesthetic or potentially under a local anaesthetic in an outpatient setting for biopsies or the removal of hypopharyngeal foreign bodies via flexible biopsy forceps obviating the need for a general anaesthetic. Thus Airtraq could be included in the armoury of pre-existing direct laryngoscopes because of its virtue of minimal airway manipulation.} }