Laryngoscopy

During introduction, the head must be maintained in the same relative position to the table as that described for direct laryngoscopy, that is, elevated and extended. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

These are areas that the doctor cannot see during the flexible laryngoscopy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This allows time to perform procedures such as direct laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy, tracheostomy, surfactant administration, cyst decompression ❋ Unknown (2010)

Flexible laryngoscopy -- A test in which the doctor passes a tiny tube with a camera and light at the end through the nose and into the airway to look for problems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Direct laryngoscopy is the only method by which the larynx of children can be seen. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

-- Dog work offers but little practice in laryngoscopy. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

Direct laryngoscopy for diagnosis is indicated in every child having laryngeal diphtheria without faucial membrane. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

To perform a bronchoscopy or esophagoscopy under these conditions would be reprehensible; but direct laryngoscopy for the seeking and removal of clots serves a useful purpose as a preventative of pulmonary abscess and similar complications. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

The portion of the table indicated by the dotted line may be dropped or not, but the back of the head must never go lower than here shown, for direct laryngoscopy; and it is better to have it at least 10 cm. above the level of the table. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

If the roentgenray is negative, laryngoscopy (direct in children, indirect in adults) without anesthesia, general or local, is the only way to make a laryngeal diagnosis. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

_Direct laryngoscopy in children_ requires neither local nor general anesthesia, either for diagnosis or for removal of foreign bodies or growths from the larynx. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

Accurate diagnosis in children is made by direct laryngoscopy without anesthesia, but direct laryngoscopy should not be done until one is prepared to remove a foreign body if found, to follow it into the bronchus and remove it if it should be dislodged and aspirated, and to do tracheotomy if sudden respiratory arrest occur. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

The glottis is exposed by left-handed laryngoscopy. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

For all of these procedures direct laryngoscopy affords a ready means of accurate application. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

If anesthesia is to be used, direct laryngoscopy will never reach its full degree of usefulness, because anesthesia makes a major procedure out of a minor one. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

-- End of the first of direct laryngoscopy, recumbent adult patient. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

The larynx is to be exposed as in direct laryngoscopy, the right pyriform sinus identified, the tip of the speculum inserted therein, and gently insinuated to the cricopharyngeal constriction. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

Furthermore, all required instruments for laryngoscopy, bronchoscopy or tracheotomy should be prepared as a matter of routine, however rarely they may be needed. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

* Diagnosis of laryngeal conditions in young children is possible only by direct laryngoscopy and is neglected in almost all of the cases. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)

This degree of relaxation is of course, present in profound general ether anesthesia, which is not to be thought of for direct laryngoscopy, except when it is used for the purpose of insertion of intratracheal insufflation anesthetic tubes. ❋ Chevalier Jackson (1911)