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University of Geneva, Switzerland: We have used the McGRATH® Series 5 to intubate an uncooperative and combative patient with severe lingual haematoma due to repeated biting of the tongue. The acute tongue swelling and traumatic macroglossia may result in a life-threatening upper airway obstruction.
Thanks to the very thin profile of the McGRATH® blade and its unique shape, full glottic exposure and rapid tracheal intubation was easily achieved under direct video control. Many cases of difficult or impossible intubation due to difficult direct laryngoscopy have been described in this setting. The McGRATH® video laryngoscope clearly avoided this problem in this case.

Dr Eduardo Schiffer,
Consultant Anaesthetist
UMC, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany: “Whilst on our rescue helicopter, we had an emergency intubation using the McGRATH®. The patient had a traumatic brain injury and the neck was fully immobilized in a rigid neck collar during the intubation. Placing the tube was very easy with a Grade I view without any movement of the neck.”

Dr. Rudiger Noppens
Consultant Anaesthesist, Rescue Helicopter Emergency Physician
University of Geneva, Switzerland: We have used the McGRATH® Series 5 to intubate an uncooperative and combative patient with severe lingual haematoma due to repeated biting of the tongue. The acute tongue swelling and traumatic macroglossia may result in a life-threatening upper airway obstruction.
Thanks to the very thin profile of the McGRATH® blade and its unique shape, full glottic exposure and rapid tracheal intubation was easily achieved under direct video control. Many cases of difficult or impossible intubation due to difficult direct laryngoscopy have been described in this setting. The McGRATH® video laryngoscope clearly avoided this problem in this case.

Dr Georges Savoldelli,
Consultant Anaesthetist
St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, UK: “The last patient I used the McGRATH® on was presenting for morbid obesity surgery and weighed 268 Kg!
Normal laryngoscopy was grade 2A and a Grade 1 with the McGRATH®. I was using it to teach students for this case and use it on 30% of morbid obese – to keep skills level up.”

Dr Andrew Kendall
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: "The McGRATH® represents the most significant advancement in laryngoscope design since the 1940's and could revolutionise the global practice of intubation."

Dr Gary Enever, MA MB BS FRCA
Consultant Anaesthetist
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK: European Journal of Emergency Medicine

"The McGRATH® produces excellent laryngoscopes views, is an effective device in rapid sequence intubation and has considerable potential to aid airway management in the Emergency Department."
Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK: "The McGRATH® is the way forward in video laryngoscopy and has a huge potential success as a training tool and teaching aid."

Dr. David Vaughan,
Consultant Anaesthetist, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, UK
North Aalborg Hospital, Denmark: "I have just intubated my first patient with the use of the McGRATH® Video Laryngoscope - the test was a complete success - the learning curve must be very short! Time to laryngoscopy and time to intubate were just a few seconds!"

Dr Jakob Kirkegaard Skou
Consultant Anaesthetist
Western and Gartnaval Hospitals, Glasgow, UK: "A previously failed intubation and C&L Grade 3 was converted to a Grade 1 view with the McGRATH® Series 5 and the patient was easily intubated. We have demonstrated its potential use as a difficult intubation tool. The McGRATH® is a practical addition to the difficult intubation trolley."

Dr Pam Doherty, Dr Neil O'Donnell, Dr John Henderson, Consultant Anaesthetists
Evergreen Healthcare, Kirkland, WA, USA: "On behalf of the Department of Anesthesiology, I would like to thank you and LMA NA Inc. for introducing the McGRATH® Video Laryngoscope to our department. What an incredible piece of equipment the McGRATH® Laryngoscope is. We have use it approximately 20+ times without a failed Intubation. It is so simple to use. We have turned away from using our [...........] system and now are using this as our first choice in difficult intubations. I just thought you would like to get a little feed back on your device."

Joseph Fitzgerald
Consultant Anaesthetist
Medical Centre of Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA: "Recent technology has transformed how the department approaches the difficult airway. We chose the McGRATH device due to its true portability and favourable learning curve. Both Anaesthetist and patients benefit from the a traumatic nature and time saved as compared to the awake fiberoptic technique."

Keith Norman,
Chief CRNA
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada: Dr. G. Del Vicario
Consultant Anaesthetist

"The McGRATH® is very compact and could be very useful in managing difficult airways. I was aware that the equipment in Uganda might be dated, possibly not available or not functioning properly. All of the above proved to be correct and I was indeed happy to have had a very compact, versatile and reliable laryngoscope at hand at all times!
The McGRATH® Videolaryngoscope was a significant addition to the tools that I had in Uganda and contributed very positively to the success of the mission."
Yale University School of Medicine, CT, USA: "I did my routine topical anaesthesia... placed the McGRATH® (fully extended blade) and to my surprise, immediately found myself looking at the vocal cords (in fact, it was so fast and easy, I doubted what I was seeing). LTA was used to place lidocaine on and below the cords.McGRATH® was removed for a minute. I returned the McGRATH®, saw cords effortlessly again, and placed the ETT 8.0mm standard PVC, malleable stylet, which I drew back as the tip entered the cords.

Dr William H. Rosenblatt
Professor of Anaesthesia and Surgery
Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark: "We have performed an intubation in an awake obese patient - with great success! The patient did not cough once during the procedure and after spontaneous breathing being intubated, the patient was put to sleep. We have also tested the scope on other patients - all procedures with success."

Dr Billy B. Kristensen
Consultant Anaesthetist
Mesos Medisch Centrum, Utrecht, The Netherlands: "Yesterday a colleague of mine used the McGRATH® in a very difficult case: Mallampati 3, every other trick failed. She inserted the device and low and behold, successful intubation within 20 seconds."

Dr Jaap de Vries
Consultant Anaesthetist
Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark: We experience the McGRATH® laryngoscope to be a brilliant supplement to today’s known airway instrumentation methods. We see an advantage when using the McGRATH® laryngoscope, due to the narrow blade shape, which is very easy to place correctly when intubating patients with small mouth openings. This also reduces the risk of teeth damage because there is no need to turn the handle, as when using a conventional laryngoscope.

M.C. ph.d. Rikke Maaløe
Consultant Anaesthetist
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, UK: “I used the McGRATH® on a patient with ankylosing spondylitis and fixed neck flexion deformity. Removal of the handle allowed introduction of the blade which otherwise would not be possible as the chest would have blocked the handle. Restricted mouth opening (about 0.5 cm) was an issue but with removal of the denture for the top 4 teeth I was able to intubate through the gap. This took less than 60 seconds. I had previously managed the patient with a LMA (deterioration in mouth opening meant this was no longer possible) or by nasal fibre-optic intubation. I had performed only 3 intubations with the McGRATH® prior to this, so the learning curve was steep.”

Dr Rob Casson,
Consultant Anaesthetist Orthopaedic Department