7 leading European Hospitals simultaneously begin trials of McGRATH® Series 5
Posted on Mon 16th April 2007
Aircraft’s product specialists instigate McGRATH® Series 5 clinical trials simultaneously in Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark and Holland this month, involving some of Europe’s leading clinicians. The programme includes Vienna’s Empress Elisabeth Hospital where some 80% of patients are undergoing thyroid and abdominal surgery. Anaesthetist’s encounter these known difficult airways due to a dislodged larynx and are already reporting improved laryngeal views and access to the airway with use of the McGRATH®.
Anaesthetist’s at Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, have conducted a number of awake intubations and have used the McGRATH® to intubate a variety of difficult cases, particularly those undergoing shoulder surgery. The McGRATH® has been proven to facilitate intubation of patients being operated on in the "beach chair position". Further studies are underway involving typically difficult Bariatric patients.
North Aalborg Hospital in Denmark has already demonstrated the McGRATH® to be of value when performing a tracheotomy. A fibreoptic scope had limitations due to its narrow field of view, whilst the McGRATH® was shown to improve visualisation in this particular procedure.
Other specialised research is ongoing at Geneva University Hospital and St James Hospital, Dublin in collaboration with the Difficult Airway Society.