Lesson 6 - Glidescope or its Cousins: MICU Fellows Airway Course

“Oh be joyful!“ the world of airway management shouted when Glidescopes arrived. In just a few short years, Glidescopes (and their many variants). Whereas THE thing to do in a difficult airway situation used to routinely be “get the fiberoptic“, the current thinking is “get the Glidescope“. In anesthesia practices, Glidescopes enjoy widespread use, discussion among ER attendings includes “all intubations should be done with Glidescopes“. Of course these ideas are debatable, but the fact that we are eve