Method for intubating patient with magnetic bougie system
AssigneeImam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
InventorsAbdulrahman Athwan S. Alqarni, Khalid Mohamad Morsy Ibraheem
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Abstract
A method for intubating a patient with a magnetic bougie system is provided. The method includes inserting a bougie through an oral cavity of the patient and advancing the bougie to a trachea of the patient. The method further includes attracting a metal tip of the bougie to a magnet. The magnet is positioned externally to the trachea of the patient. The magnet is fixed to a base holder. The method further includes confirming a position of the bougie with one or more sensors. The method further includes inserting an endotracheal tube through the oral cavity of the patient and advancing the endotracheal tube to the position of the bougie.
Claims18
A method for intubating a patient with a magnetic bougie system, comprising:
- inserting a laryngeal tube through the oral cavity of the patient and advancing the laryngeal tube to an esophagus of the patient;
- inserting the metal tip of the bougie into a bougie port of the laryngeal tube and advancing the metal tip of the bougie to a trachea of the patient;
- positioning a base holder on an anterior surface of a neck of the patient;
- attracting the metal tip of the bougie to a magnet, wherein the magnet is positioned externally to the trachea of the patient and wherein the magnet is fixed to the base holder;
- positioning the metal tip of the bougie with the magnet;
- removing the laryngeal tube from the esophagus of the patient while maintaining the position of the magnet and maintaining the position of the metal tip of the bougie in the trachea of the patient;
- and confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie with at least one of a metal sensor and a magnet sensor, and inserting an endotracheal tube through the oral cavity of the patient and advancing the endotracheal tube to the position of the metal tip of the bougie;
- wherein confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie with at least one of the metal sensor and the magnet sensor includes:
- confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie with a first sensor positioned at a thyroid cartilage of the patient;
- confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie at a distal cuff of the laryngeal tube and along an axis of the laryngeal tube with a second sensor;
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- confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie at the trachea of the patient with a third sensor positioned at a carina of the patient, wherein the third sensor is the metal sensor that detects the metal tip of the bougie.
A method for intubating a patient with a magnetic bougie system, comprising:
- inserting a metal tip of a bougie through an oral cavity of the patient and advancing the metal tip of the bougie to a trachea of the patient;
- positioning a base holder on an anterior surface of a neck of the patient;
- attracting the metal tip of the bougie to a magnet, wherein the magnet is positioned externally to the trachea of the patient and wherein the magnet is fixed to the base holder;
- positioning the metal tip of the bougie with the magnet;
- confirming a position of the metal tip of the bougie with a first sensor positioned at a thyroid cartilage of the patient,
- confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie at a distal cuff of the laryngeal tube and along an axis of the laryngeal tube with a second sensor;
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- confirming the position of the metal tip of the bougie at the trachea of the patient with a third sensor positioned at a carina of the patient, wherein the third sensor is a metal sensor that detects the metal tip of the bougie;
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- inserting an endotracheal tube through the oral cavity of the patient and advancing the endotracheal tube to the position of the metal tip of the bougie;
- confirming a position of at least one of the first, second or third sensors positioned on a throat of the patient with an ultrasound imaging device.
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