Herewith an tentative attempt to categorize laryngoscopes by blade shape:
Direct
- Macintosh
- Miller
- Seward
- McCoy – LITFL snippet or AnaesthesiaUK site
Video/optical/indirect
“Traditional” Macintosh/Miller
- C-MAC MAC and MIL (Storz)
- Glidescope Direct
Hyperangulated
- Glidescope (Verathon)
- C-MAC “D” Dorges (Storz)
Channeled
- Airtraq
- King Vision (Ambu)
- AWS (Pentax)
Hybrid & Other
- CTrach – Intubating laryngeal mask with hybrid fibreoptic/video system allowing laryngoscopic view
- TotalTrack – intubating supraglottic airway with video system allowing laryngoscopic view, with continuous ventilation
- SmartBlade – channeled hyperangulated disposable VL using smartphone display