Evaluation of free-floating tracheal intubation in weightlessness via ice-pick position with a direct laryngoscopy and classic approach with indirect videolaryngoscopy by Séamus Thierry, François Jaulin, Clément Starck, Philippe Ariès, Jan Schmitz, Steffen Kerkhoff, Cécile Isabelle Bernard, Matthieu Komorowski, Tobias Warnecke, Jochen Hinkelbein

“…Free-floating video laryngoscopy at the head of the manikin had a significant better success score than conventional direct laryngoscopy in an ice-pick position. Our results, combined with the preexisting literature, emphasis the difficulties of performing oro-tracheal intubation, even for experts using modern airway devices, under postural instability in weightlessness. …”
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