Oral airways, which are used around the world an estimated 350 million times annually and often in challenging situations, are a ubiquitous part of anesthesia practice. Yet as a retired professor from the Emory University School of Medicine explained, current airways have drawbacks as they are not designed to hold the jaw protruded or control the tongue from falling back.
A new airway, the Lower-Jaw-Thrusting (LJT) oral airway (Wedge Therapeutics), is designed to address these problems. As its