Airway Management During the Last 100 Years

Sonia Vaida; Luis Gaitini; Mostafa Somri; Ibrahim Matter; Jansie Prozesky

doi:10.1016/j.ccc.2022.12.003

Airway Management During the Last 100 Years

Crit Care Clin. 2023 Jul;39(3):451-464. doi: 10.1016/j.ccc.2022.12.003. Epub 2023 Feb 20.

Authors

Sonia Vaida¹, Luis Gaitini², Mostafa Somri², Ibrahim Matter³, Jansie Prozesky⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, USA. Electronic address: svaida@pennstatehealth.psu.edu.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, 31048, 47 Golomb Street, Haifa, Israel.
³ Department of Surgery, Bnai-Zion Medical Center, 31048, 47 Golomb Street, Haifa, Israel.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

PMID: 37230550
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2022.12.003

Abstract

A large variety of airway devices, techniques, and cognitive tools have been developed during the last 100 years to improve airway management safety and became a topic of major research interest. This article reviews the main developments in this period, starting with modern day laryngoscopy in the 1940s, fiberoptic laryngoscopy in the 1960s, supraglottic airway devices in the 1980s, algorithms for difficult airway in the 1990s, and finally modern video-laryngoscopy in the 2000s.

Keywords: Airway management; Endotracheal tube; Fiberoptic scope intubation; History; Laryngeal mask airway; Laryngeal tube; Supraglottic airway devices.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Airway Management* / methods
Algorithms
Humans
Intubation, Intratracheal* / methods
Laryngoscopy / methods