You do your best to avoid airway complications. You know they can be associated with significant patient morbidity and unnecessary expense.([FOOTNOTE=Fiadjoe JE, Nishisaki A, Jagannathan N, et al. Airway management complications in children with difficult tracheal intubation from the Pediatric Difficult Intubation (PeDI) registry: a prospective cohort analysis. Lancet Respir Med. 2016 4(1):37-48.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])^,([FOOTNOTE=Metzner J, Posner KL, Lam MS, Domino KB. Closed claims’ analysis. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2011;25(2):263-76.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])^,([FOOTNOTE=Cook T, Woodall N, Frerk C. 4th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and The Difficult Airway Society: Major complications of airway management in the United Kingdom. http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/system/files/CSQ-NAP4-Full.pdf. Published March 2011. Accessed January 2017.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=]) But sometimes they occur when you least expect.([FOOTNOTE=Nørskov AK, Rosenstock CV, Wetterslev J, Astrup G, Afshari A, Lundstrøm LH. Diagnostic accuracy of anaesthesiologists' prediction of difficult airway management in daily clinical practice: a cohort study of 188 064 patients registered in the Danish Anaesthesia Database. Anaesthesia. 2015;70(3):272-81.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])^,([FOOTNOTE=Huitink JM, Lie PP, Heideman I, et al. A prospective, cohort evaluation of major and minor airway management complications during routine anaesthetic care at an academic medical centre. Anaesthesia. 2017;72(1):42-48.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])

With the McGRATH™ MAC video laryngoscope, you can be better prepared for the unexpected. Combining confidence with simplicity and convenience — so your first attempt is your best.

• Better glottic visualization than traditional Macintosh laryngoscopy([FOOTNOTE=Shin M, Bai SJ, Lee KY, Oh E, Kim HJ. Comparing McGRATH® MAC, C-MAC®, and Macintosh laryngoscopes operated by medical students: a randomized, crossover, manikin study. Biomed Res Int. 2016;2016:8943931.],[ANCHOR=],[LINK=])
• Reduced intubation times, even with limited training⁷
• Higher intubation success rates than other video laryngoscopes¹

Because a difficult airway doesn’t have to be a difficult intubation.