Difficulties with Gum Elastic Bougie Intubation in an Academic Emergency Department. Shah KH et al. The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011; 41:429-434. The Gum Elastic Bougie (bougie) has been ...

First-pass intubation success was achieved in 414 ... it serves its purpose of demonstrating that the gum elastic bougie, first described by Macintosh in 1949, [2] is an important part of ...

The bougie should be used primarily as a rescue tool in difficult airway situations and not for routine intubation. Utilizing video laryngoscopy also can help EMS providers successfully pass an ET ...

At all the trial sites, a stylet or bougie was routinely used during the first tracheal intubation attempt, and waveform capnography or colorimetric end-tidal carbon dioxide detection was used to ...

Voir Bougie ® is the only tracheal introducer with highly visible color-coded depth markers, designed to improve intubation accuracy while reducing the risk of serious complications such as ...