title: The Application of Airtraq (fibreoptic intubation device) to Otolaryngology
creator: Mendis, D 
creator: Oates, J
subject: Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
description: 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.
publisher: BS Kakkilaya
contributor: Kakkilaya, Dr Srinivas
date: 2011-07-30
type: Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/7973/1/2011-2-16.pdf
identifier:   Mendis, D  and Oates, J  (2011) The Application of Airtraq (fibreoptic intubation device) to Otolaryngology.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/7973/