Routine videolaryngoscopy is likely to improve skills needed to use a videolaryngoscope when laryngoscopy is difficult

Editor –We read Dr Marathe and colleagues’1 comments with great interest. Their survey, though small, is interesting as it explores current attitudes to videolaryngoscopy (VL). In our department, we are familiar with individual reticence to use VL and identified the same before introduction of universal availability of VL in 2014. In our hospital, 92% of trainee anaesthetists were opposed to a trial of universal VL in 2014, primarily because of training concerns. Within eight months this reticence was replaced with widespread enthusiasm and uptake: 95% then reported that VL had enhanced their training and their development as an anaesthetist (data submitted for publication). This enthusiasm was mirrored in our anaesthetic assistants.
Source: British Journal of Anaesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research