Comparing the Effectiveness and Safety of MedAn with the Nishikawa Blade and UE Videolaryngoscopes for Left-Sided Double-Lumen Endobronchial Tube Intubation: A Randomized Controlled Trial

26 September 2023 : Clinical Research

Yong Zhang^1ACE, Wenwen Zhang^1ACE, Shuai Wang^1ACE, Hailing Yin^1BC, Yajie Xu

^1BCD, Zhaojing Fang^1BCD, Hongguang Bao^1FG, Chen Zhang^1FG, Xiaoliang Wang^1ADEF*, Wentao Liu^2AFG

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.940916

Med Sci Monit 2023; 29:e940916

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Table 3 Laryngeal view and subjective evaluations of anesthesiologists.

	Group UE (n=52)	Group MedAn (n=52)	P value
C/L grade (I/II/III/IV, n)	29/18/5/1	41/11/0/1	0.03
Ease of laryngoscope insertion (excellent/good/fair/poor, n)	33/13/6/0	46/3/3/0	0.009
Subjective view (excellent/good/fair/poor, n)	28/15/8/1	41/9/2/0	0.036
Ease of LDLT placement (excellent/good/fair/poor, n)	25/16/10/1	36/14/2/0	0.038
C/L – Cormack-Lehane; LDLT – left-sided double-lumen tube; Group UE – LDLT intubation with the UE videolaryngoscope; Group MedAn – LDLT intubation with the MedAn videolaryngoscope with the Nishikawa blade. Data are presented as numbers.

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