GlideScope^® Applications

For Airway Management in a variety of settings:

• 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
• Preterm and neonatal intubations
• Patients requiring cervical spine immobilization
• Re-intubation and endotracheal tube exchange in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings
• Supervision and documentation of the laryngoscopy
• Nasal tracheal intubation
• Insertion of transesophageal echocardiac probes
• Larynogoscopic foreign body removal
• Awake intubation for difficult airway management
• Insertion of double lumen tubes (DLTs)
• Teaching the anatomy of the airway
• Video-guided tube exchange in the ICU