A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN LIGHT WAND AND AIRTRAQ AIDED TRACHEAL INTUBATION FOR ADULT PATIENTS WITH DIFFICULT AIRWAY UNDERGOING ELECTIVE SURGERY UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA

MYTHILI KOTA; AMAN SAI GUNTREDDY; M VENKATA GANESH

doi:10.22159/ajpcr.2023.v16i10.48945

Authors

MYTHILI KOTA Department of Anaesthesiology, Gitam Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
AMAN SAI GUNTREDDY Department of Anaesthesiology, Gitam Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
M VENKATA GANESH Department of Anaesthesiology, Gitam Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22159/ajpcr.2023.v16i10.48945

Keywords:

Difficult airway, Aitraq, Light wand, General anesthesia, Intubation

Abstract

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare airtraq (AT) intubations and lightwand (LW) intubations in terms of safety, efficacy, ease of intubation, hemodynamic variabilities, and post-operative outcomes.

Methods: A cross-sectional and randomized comparative study was conducted on sixty adult patients with a predicted difficult airway, scheduled to undergo elective surgery under general anesthesia using AT and LW intubation.

Results: All the cases in both the AT group and LW group were successfully intubated, with an overall success rate of 100% in both groups. The success at the first attempt in AT group was 96.66% and that of LW group was 73.33%.

Conclusion: AT had superior successful intubation conditions than LW. However, both LW and AT were proved to be safe and successful techniques of intubation in difficult airway patients.

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