Bougie

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The bougie is a straight, semirigid, stylet a device with a bent tip that can be used when intubation is expected to be difficult often helpful when the tracheal opening is interior to the visual field.

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During laryngoscopy the bougie is carefully advanced into larynx and through the cords untiled the tip enters a main stem broncos.

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While maintaining the laryngoscope and bougie in position ,an assistant threads an ETT over the end of the bougie, into larynx.

 

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