Steerable Intubation Guide in Combination with Video-Laryngoscope for Intubating Patients with Anterior Airway.

Management of the difficult airway remains one of the most relevant and challenging clinical situations encountered by anesthesiologists. Intubation with a video-laryngoscope is often difficult in patients with anterior airway even when the larynx is readily visualized. This has led to the combined use of a video-laryngoscope together with a flexible bronchoscope for endotracheal intubation. The disposable flexible bronchoscopes that are currently available on the market however are not rigid enough to reliably guide the endotracheal tube into the larynx. A new steerable intubation guide is now available that is very useful when intubating a patient with an anterior airway with a video-laryngoscope.