Airway on Demand: Bougie-Aided King Vision Intubation After Radiation

In this episode of Airway on Demand (AOD), William Rosenblatt, MD, professor of anesthesiology and otolaryngology at Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Conn., described how he used the King Vision video laryngoscope (Ambu) to intubate a patient with a history of radiation treatment.

Patients who have received radiation therapy to the head and neck for the treatment of upper airway malignancies may be difficult to intubate by direct laryngoscopy. Scarring, loss of tissue plasticity and edema