Introducer guide

Introducer guide means for an intubation device, the introducer guide means having an operating configuration in which the introducer guide means defines an open channel adapted to releasably secure in position an introducer in the open channel, the channel having first and second ends respectively upstream and downstream of the deployment direction of the introducer wherein the first end is shaped to contact an intubation tube so as to cause the intubation tube to remove the introducer from the introducer guide means, the first end comprising a tube deflecting formation in the form of a smooth taper operable to deflect an intubation tube through which an introducer retained in the open channel of the introducer guide means extends as the intubation tube is advanced to engage with the tube deflecting formation.