Does the Use of Video Laryngoscopy Improve Intubation Outcomes?

The authors included 64 randomized controlled trials reporting outcomes for 7,044 subjects. Only 3 of these studies included patients requiring emergency airway management: one based in an ICU,5 one in a trauma center,6 and one in an out-of-hospital setting.7 The small number of emergency intubations identified precluded subgroup analysis of this population. The remaining 61 studies took place in an operating room setting and comprised elective surgical participants. The most commonly studied video laryngoscopy devices included GlideScope (Verathon, Bothwell, WA) (29 studies), Pentax AWS (Ambu Inc, Ballerup, Denmark) (20 studies), C-MAC (Karl Storz GmbH & Co KG, Tuttlingen, Germany) (9 studies), and McGrath (Aircraft Medical Limited, Edinburgh, UK) (8 studies).

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