Patients with unexpected difficult airway requiring endotracheal intubation (ETI) remain extremely challenging for emergency physicians and intubation failure with subsequent hypoxic complications still represents the majority of cases in a recent closed claims analysis.~An incidence of major complications in airway management of 1 in 5,500 was estimated in the Fourth National Audit Project in the UK.~Therefore, our aim was to compare intubation conditions regarding the modified Cormack & Lehane score (CL) between the D-Blade® in indirect laryngoscopy or Macintosh blade in direct and indirect laryngoscopy with C-MAC PM® in a simulated setting of a difficult airway in human subjects.
In the presented study, our aim was to compare intubation conditions regarding the modified Cormack & Lehane score (CL) between the D-Blade® in indirect laryngoscopy or Macintosh blade in direct and indirect laryngoscopy with C-MAC PM® in a simulated setting of a difficult airway in human subjects.