• Indian J Anaesth · Mar 2012

    Airtraq(®) optical laryngoscope for tracheal intubation in patients with severe ankylosing spondylitis: A report of two cases.

    • Qazi Ehsan Ali, Syed Hussain Amir, Obaid Ahmed Siddiqui, Abu Nadeem, and Abdulla Zoheb Azhar.
    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Jawahaharlal Nehru Medical College, A.M.U., Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
    • Indian J Anaesth. 2012 Mar 1;56(2):165-7.

    AbstractAirway management in patients of ankylosing spondylitis remains a challenge for anaesthesiologists. Many new airway devices have been used for securing airway in these patients. The Airtraq(®) optical laryngoscope is one of the new rigid laryngoscopes with a proximal view finder that reflects an image transferred from the distal tip of the blade through a series of lenses, prisms and mirrors. We report two cases of ankylosing spondylitis who were scheduled for total hip replacement and subtotal thyroidectomy and were successfully intubated using the Airtraq(®) laryngoscope.

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