Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory syndrome caused by SARS-CoV-2, can be transmitted through respiratory droplets and aerosols of droplet nuclei. Aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMP) are needed to take care of critically ill patients but place health care providers at risk of infection. With limited supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), barrier systems were developed to help protect health care providers during tracheal intubation. The video intubating stylet shows promise to become the preferred intubation device in conjunction with plastic sheet barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlights
It is worthy to mention that videolaryngoscopy became a new paradigm for tracheal intubation since decades ago [32,55]
Such critical roles and increasing prevalence of videolaryngoscopy have been emerged in many clinical environments, such as emergency rooms, operating theaters, intensive care units, and wards [56,57,58]
During COVID-19 pandemic, not surprisingly, the beneficial role of videolaryngoscopy has been repeatedly advocated in several guidelines [30,31]
Summary
Because of the pathology and progression of the disease towards respiratory failure, aerosol-generating medical procedures (AGMP) such as laryngoscopy, endotracheal intubation and extubation, tracheostomy, bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage, positive pressure ventilation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation with bag-valve-mask, suctioning, and nasopharyngeal aspiration and washing would be necessary to take care of patients with COVID-19 infection [5]. Encyclopedia 2021, 1 during the early stages of the pandemic [9], the growing number of confirmed and suscases, as well as as well an overwhelming workload, frontline frontline medical workers pected cases, as an overwhelming workload, medicalendured workerssignificant endured anxiety performing their expected as they worried about becoming infected, as well significant anxiety performing theirduties expected duties as they worried about becoming inas transmitting disease to family members [10].
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