Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
ISSN: 2155-6148
Background: The anesthesiologist is person solely responsible for airway management of the patients undergoing a surgical procedure. Airway management and endotracheal intubation are fundamental skills for the safe conduct of general anesthesia. Laryngoscopes play an important role in securing airway. They range from simple rigid scopes to complex fiber optic video devices. Successful direct laryngoscopy depends on aligning the axes of oral cavity, pharynx and larynx.
Materials and methods: A total of 60 ASA grade I, II and III adult patients, age 18-60 year, weighing up to 100 kgs posted for elective laparoscopic surgeries undergoing general anaesthesia were equally divided in three groups, twenty patients each after taking written informed consent from the patients, in their own vernacular language. All cases were induced by the same senior anaesthetist.
Group M (n=20)-Conventional Macintosh laryngoscope group.
Group A (n=20)-AirTraQ video laryngoscope group.
Group F (n=20)-FasTrach intubating LMA group.
Results: Duration to intubate in group M was 19.6 ± 4.67 (mean ± SD) seconds, in group A was 8.7 ± 3.27 (mean ± SD) seconds and in group F was 20.3 ± 27.90 (mean ± SD)seconds. Duration of endotracheal intubation between three groups, were comparable and shows statistically significant difference between the three groups. Group A was better than group M and group F.
Conclusion: From the present study it is concluded that AirTraQ video laryngoscope and FasTrach video laryngoscope, newer airway devices, is more user friendly, simple, easy to use as compared to conventional Macintosh laryngoscope.
Published Date: 2022-09-20; Received Date: 2022-08-16