The Murphy eye as guidance for topical airway anesthesia during awake tracheal intubation with a channeled blade videolaryngoscope

Several publications have been published proposing awake videolaryngoscope-assisted intubation with a channeled videolaryngoscope [1,2]. We absolutely agree with this approach of awake videolaryngoscope-assisted tracheal intubation with maintained spontaneous respiration. We think that this approach is still significantly underused and could prevent a relevant part of airway problems in anesthesia. To become a more common and widespread approach, it should be as simple and efficient as possible.

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