Talk:Laryngoscopy

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There is a medical journal called "The Laryngoscope".

laryngoscope.com

I do not know how to make a disambiguation page....sorry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.207.50.106 (talk) 01:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

text moved from intubation, should be edited and integrated into this article
There are many types of laryngoscope. The main categories are those for adult use and those for child use. The blade may be curved (eg the Macintosh); straight (eg Miller blade and most paediatric blades); at a 120 degree angle as in the polio blade; or with a hinged blade tip seen in the McCoy laryngoscope which is commonly used in managing difficult intubations. The handle may be short to allow use when there is limited space, commonly seen during a rapid sequence induction of an obese individual where there is less room for both cricoid pressure application and performing laryngoscopy. The fibreoptic intubating laryngoscope is also used for intubation (its other uses including examination of the airway and bronchial tree.) Fiberoptics are particularly useful when intubation is required in the presence of upper airway obstruction (eg oral abcess), tumor, angioedema, or limited neck movement. In these circumstances, the airways are carefully anaesthetised with local anaesthetic and vasoconstrictor drugs before performing awake intubation. The Magill forceps ( there are is also a Magill laryngoscope) are long and angled to allow access to the pharynx, so enabling nasogastric tube or nasotracheal tube placement and also removal of debris from the pharynx. This is a basic, minimal introduction to laryngoscopes. Other important aids to laryngoscopy include the gum elastic bougie, which may be passed through the cords and a ETT railoaded over it, and the stylet as is used in North America, although it has no advantage over the bougie.

For good summaries of this topic, see Al-Shaikh's Essentials of Anaesthetic Equipment, Fundamentals of Anaesthesia by Ted Lin, or the Difficult Airway Society website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kosebamse (talk • contribs) 11:31, 14 January 2007 (UTC).

Another device with the same name
There is another kind of laryngoscope, which consists of a pair of sensitive microphones, some kind of blackbox device, and computer programming. which are strapped to the subject's throat around the voicebox area. This is used to obtain highly-accurate voice-wave analysis. Rhialto (talk) 15:32, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

lma
I do not have time to edit this, but the LMA is only 'relatively' non-invasive, whereas OPAs and NPAs are truly non-invasive. Trachlights are invasive, optical stylets are invasive and so is any other intubation facilitation tool that enters the trachea.

Someone should also add the McCoy blade to the list of laryngoscopes - they are on every Difficult airway management (DAM) cart I've ever seen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.110.227.242 (talk) 02:05, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

McCoy blade
... isn't mentioned. JFW &#124; T@lk  15:39, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Rhinolaryngoscope?
The other day they looked into my throat using a flexible tube with a light and presumably some camera or something which they inserted via my nose. Is this called a "rhinolaryngoscope", or is it simply a particular kind of a laryngoscope with no particular name (except for brand names of course)? --Droigheann (talk) 13:08, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Found it. --Droigheann (talk) 00:30, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

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