GlideRite® Applications
For Airway Management in a variety of settings
To be used with a GlideScope video laryngoscope :
- Difficult airways
- First-use intubations, replacing direct laryngoscopy (DL)
- Normal or restricted oropharyngeal views/visualization and assessment of the oropharynx
- Cormack-Lehane Grades I - IV laryngeal views
- Trauma airways—excellent when dealing with blood and secretions in the airway
- Airway management in morbidly obese patients
- Patients requiring cervical spine immobilization
- Re-intubation and endotracheal tube exchange in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings
- Awake intubation for difficult airway management
- Insertion of double lumen tubes (DLTs)