Volume 24, Issue 106, November - December, 2020

Video laryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy on time of orotracheal intubation in normal adult in elective surgeries

Alaa Hussein Altaiee, Haider Abbass Hassen^♦, Sura Janan Fadeel

Anaesthetist, Department of Intensive Care, Ghazi Al-Hariri teaching Hospital, Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq

^♦Corresponding author
Anaesthetist, Department of Intensive Care, Ghazi Al-Hariri teaching Hospital, Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq; Email: hayder.adnan2010@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Objective: to compare the time and ease of intubation in suspected non-difficult intubation during airway management by the two laryngoscopes. Methods: A prospective randomized study was done on 100 patients, there age was 18 to 65 years old, comparing McGrath video-laryngoscope and Maccintosh laryngoscope divided into two equal groups each of 50 patients, patients given the same technique of anesthesia. Results: In comparison between study groups by duration of intubation, we noticed that the mean duration of intubation by using McGRATH™ MAC video laryngoscope was significantly lower than that of using Macintosh Laryngoscope (14.8 versus 17.88 seconds, P= 0.001). Conclusions: Intubation by video laryngoscope is faster than direct laryngoscope and easy to use.

Keywords: MAC, Laryngoscope, video laryngoscope

Medical Science, 2020, 24(106), 4264-4269

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