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Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients

As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, infection with the Omicron variants has become a serious risk to global public health. Anesthesia providers are often called upon for endotracheal intubations for COVID patients. Expedite and safe intubation can save patient’s life, while minimizing the virus exposu...

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Autores principales: Huang, Ching-Hsuan, Su, I-Min, Jhuang, Bo-Jyun, Luk, Hsiang-Ning, Qu, Jason Zhensheng, Shikani, Alan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742156
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061105
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author Huang, Ching-Hsuan
Su, I-Min
Jhuang, Bo-Jyun
Luk, Hsiang-Ning
Qu, Jason Zhensheng
Shikani, Alan
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description As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, infection with the Omicron variants has become a serious risk to global public health. Anesthesia providers are often called upon for endotracheal intubations for COVID patients. Expedite and safe intubation can save patient’s life, while minimizing the virus exposure to the anesthesia provider and personnel involved during airway intervention is very important to protect healthcare workers and conserve the medical work force. In this paper, we share clinical experience of using a video-assisted intubating stylet technique combined with a simple plastic sheet barrier placed over the patients’ mouth for tracheal intubation during the Omicron crisis in Taiwan. We demonstrated that the use of an intubating stylet combined with plastic sheet barrier is swift, safe, and accurate in securing the airway in patients with COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-92228292022-06-24 Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients Huang, Ching-Hsuan Su, I-Min Jhuang, Bo-Jyun Luk, Hsiang-Ning Qu, Jason Zhensheng Shikani, Alan Healthcare (Basel) Brief Report As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, infection with the Omicron variants has become a serious risk to global public health. Anesthesia providers are often called upon for endotracheal intubations for COVID patients. Expedite and safe intubation can save patient’s life, while minimizing the virus exposure to the anesthesia provider and personnel involved during airway intervention is very important to protect healthcare workers and conserve the medical work force. In this paper, we share clinical experience of using a video-assisted intubating stylet technique combined with a simple plastic sheet barrier placed over the patients’ mouth for tracheal intubation during the Omicron crisis in Taiwan. We demonstrated that the use of an intubating stylet combined with plastic sheet barrier is swift, safe, and accurate in securing the airway in patients with COVID-19. MDPI 2022-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9222829/ /pubmed/35742156 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061105 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients
title Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients
title_full Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients
title_fullStr Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients
title_full_unstemmed Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients
title_short Video-Assisted Stylet Intubation with a Plastic Sheet Barrier, a Safe and Simple Technique for Tracheal Intubation of COVID-19 Patients
title_sort video-assisted stylet intubation with a plastic sheet barrier, a safe and simple technique for tracheal intubation of covid-19 patients
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9222829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35742156
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10061105
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