Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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The PCV (Piquet-Crinquette-Vilette) laryngoscope has been designed for use in difficult endotracheal intubation in the adult. Its blade, 170 mm long, is curved, narrow (12 mm internal diameter) and semicircular in cross-section, like a closed C. An 8 mm endotracheal tube can be pushed through this blade. ⋯ Of 115 patients with a predicted difficult endotracheal intubation, fifty were intubated with the PCV without any failures. Also, twenty-five patients, out of thirty, were successfully intubated with the PCV after an attempt with a MacIntosh blade had failed. Of these five failures, one was never intubated by any technique whatsoever, two were intubated by fibroscopy and two by the ENT surgeon.
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Jan 1991
Letter Case Reports[Sublingual hematoma after difficult intubation].