GlideScope

The GlideScope GVL^® (reusable) video laryngoscope, Manufactured by Verathon Medical, provides a consistently clear, real-time view of the airway and tube placement, enabling quick intubation.

Benefits Include:

• Designed especially for difficult airways: convenient for routine airways
• Provides a consistently clear view, enabling quick intubation in unpredictable conditions
• Operational in seconds
• Optimized for demanding OR, ED, and ICU settings
• Reusable blades
• Choice of four sizes to simulate patients from small children to morbidly obese patients.

Features Include:

• Color monitor
• With anti-reflective screen
• With NTSC video output to facilitate recording
• Reusable blades
• With high-resolution camera for real-time view of the airway and tube placement
• Anti-fogging mechanism resists lens clouding and secretions
• Unique angulation
• For small child to morbidly obese patients
• Choice of four sizes (GVL® 2, 3, 4)
• GlideRite® Rigid Stylet included which complements the angle of GlideScope video laryngoscopes to facilitate quick intubation

Applications Include:

• First-use intubations, replacing direct laryngoscopy (DL)
• Difficult airways
• Airway management in morbidly obese patients
• Normal or restricted oropharyngeal views/visualization and assessment of the oropharynx
• Cormack-Lehane Grades I-IV laryngeal views
• Trauma airways -- excellent when dealing with blood and secretions in the airway
• Patients requiring cervical spine immobilization
• Re-intubation and endotracheal tube exchange in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) settings
• Nasal tracheal intubation
• Insertion of transesophageal echocardiac probes
• Larynogoscopic foreign body removal
• Awake intubation for difficult airway management
• Insertion of double lumen tubes (DLTs)
• Teaching the anatomy of the airway
• Video-guided tube exchange in the ICU