Key result
Using a fiberoptic scope as a controllable stylet through the endotracheal tube successfully facilitated GlideScope intubation in a 32-year-old obese female with a difficult airway.
Population
1 obese female patient, aged 32 yr, weighing 142 kg, with a Mallampati class 4 airway and a short neck with…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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May aid select GlideScope cases with difficult tube passage; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Case Report (n=1)
No
A fiberoptic scope can be used as a controllable stylet to facilitate endotracheal tube passage when GlideScope visualization is adequate but tube advancement is difficult.
Moore et al. (2007) conducted a case report in Difficult airway (n=1). GlideScope intubation assisted by a fiberoptic scope was evaluated on Successful intubation. Using a fiberoptic scope as a controllable stylet through the endotracheal tube successfully facilitated GlideScope intubation in a 32-year-old obese female with a difficult airway.
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