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|+Table 1. <i>Classification of rigid indirect laryngoscopes</i>
|+Table 1. <i>Classification of rigid indirect laryngoscopes</i>
|'''Classification'''
|'''Classification'''
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|'''Description of technique'''
|'''Description of technique'''
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|'''Examples'''
|'''Examples'''
|4
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|‘Non-guided’ devices
|Provide an indirect view of larynx but require direction
of tracheal tube towards larynx.
|Bullard laryngoscope
Glidescope
Storz DCI Videolaryngoscope
Storz C-MAC laryngoscope
|-
|-
|Young Children
|‘Guided’ devices
|3
|Provide indirect view and act as a conduit for passage of tracheal tube.
|Airtraq
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|-
|Adolescent/Adult
|Optical stylets
|1.5-2
|Provide indirect view via rigid or semi-rigid stylet, with a ‘loaded’ tracheal tube for railroading.
|Bonfils and Brambrink
Shikani
Lightwand
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a responsibility to be familiar with airway algorithms and make
a responsibility to be familiar with airway algorithms and make
pragmatic modifications to account for available resources.
pragmatic modifications to account for available resources.


== REFERENCES ==
== REFERENCES ==