laryngoscope
IPA: ɫɑrˈɪngʌskoʊp
noun
- An endoscope used for viewing the interior of the larynx.
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Examples of "laryngoscope" in Sentences
- The laryngoscope he designed in 1941 remains the most used today.
- The Glidescope video laryngoscope is one example of such a device.
- This popular device increases the reliability of the laryngoscope to 99%.
- There are many types of laryngoscope blades used by anesthesia personnel.
- A transnasal flexible laryngoscope can be used for office based diagnostics.
- The most used replaceable blade of the laryngoscope is named after Macintosh.
- I can feel the heft of the laryngoscope in one hand, visualize the passage of my ET tube past the winking cords.
- Then I press the blade of the laryngoscope against the pink taste buds, slipping the tube in place and nodding once.
- One important consequence of the invention of the laryngoscope was the turning of attention away from the sensations of vibration in the chest and head.
- When she does this, the child immediately screams and I pull the laryngoscope, no longer needed, from its hiding place and drop it into the pocket of my scrub shirt.
- I flip open the laryngoscope to make sure the bulb is working and close the blade again, lifting the thin mattress just enough to slide the metal instrument underneath.
- I would have run and burst through the door, and there would have been the warmer and oxygen supply and bulb suction, the bag mask and laryngoscope and ET tube, waiting for me.
- Just as three years earlier I had become a doctor only by painful repetition, by the snapping open of a laryngoscope or the gentle pressure of two fingers searching for a pulse, in the months I have before me I will become something else as well.
- We are able to laugh like this now, because Alli had turned to Neil, stopping us on the final landing of the stairwell, and held out a laryngoscope, the blade closed and flat against the handle but still gleaming and somehow sinister in the yellow lights.
- A laryngoscope including a blade and a handle having a rigid handle section and a movable handle section is disclosed. The movable handle section is adapted to be pivoted and locked at a desired position relative to the rigid section prior to use with a patient.
- We had all been trained for this scenario, in theory, with textbooks boasting glossy colored photos, in classrooms without air conditioning, each of us in turn taking hold of the various instruments—bag and mask, laryngoscope, and finally endotracheal tubes—that would be provided at the deliveries where resuscitation was called for.