r/emergencymedicine • u/Radiant_Alchemist • 22d ago

Advice Will Video Laryngoscopy become the norm?

I love VL. They make standard laryngoscopes look brutal. They're less traumatizing, they give a better view, they have a better first-pass success. Sure you need to learn direct laryngoscopy but let's say in 5 years from now will they be used as routine in OR and ER intubations? Or will they be saved for hard cases?

I've been told that the equipment tends to suck and that we won't have VL as available as in the current department that I'm working so I should stick to Macintosh and McCoy.

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u/Imn0ak ED Resident 22d ago

In my country there's 2-3 in the only tertiary ER in the country, 4 large screen mobile ones for 10 ORs in house along with handheld VL in most of the ORs. I haven't seen a DL intubation for a while except it being for training purposes during a controlled situation in the OR.