GlideScope-Assisted Double-Lumen Endobronchial Tube Placement in a Patient With an Unanticipated Difficult Airway

A comparison of the McGrath®Series 5 videolaryngoscope and Macintosh laryngoscope for double-lumen tracheal tube placement in patients with a good glottic view at direct laryngoscopy

“…Videolaryngoscopes play an important role in airway management . A number of case reports and clinical trials have described the successful use of different videolaryngoscopes for tracheal intubation with a double‐lumen tube, including the GlideScope ® , Airtraq ® , CEL‐100 ™ , Pentax Airway Scope ® , C‐MAC ® , McGrath ® MAC , McGrath Series 5 and video stylet . Some devices have been shown to be superior to the Macintosh laryngoscope for double‐lumen tube placement in patients with normal airways .…”

A Simulator Study of Tube Exchange with Three Different Designs of Double-Lumen Tubes

“…However, it has been the clinical experience of ourselves and others that, although visualizing the glottis with a video laryngoscope is usually straightforward, direct DLT intubation with a video laryngoscope is often awkward in a patient with a difficult airway. 2 A specific intubation stylet designed for DLT placement with a GlideScope, the GlideRite DLT Stylet® (CAREstream Medical Ltd., Langley, BC) has been developed to facilitate intubation. This stylet has been reported to be useful in patients with normal airways.…”

Airway Tube Exchanger Techniques in Morbidly Obese Patients

“…Smith et al [32] reported that a WuScope (Achi Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA) helped them to successfully exchange from a DLT to an SLT under vision, without having to use an AEC. Chen et al [33] used a GlideScope (Saturn Biomedical System Inc, Burnaby, BC, Canada) to exchange from an SLT to a DLT over an AEC. Poon et al [34] reported successful intubation of a DLT over an AEC using an Airway Scope (Pentax, Tokyo, Japan).…”