Size #00 Macintosh — Neonatal Curved Blade

The size-#00 Macintosh fiber-optic blade is the neonatal-and-premature-infant intubation blade. Sir Robert Macintosh (1897-1989), Oxford’s first Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, designed the curved-blade-with-vallecular-tip in 1943 to indirectly lift the epiglottis via tension on the glosso-epiglottic ligament. The #00 size is reserved for neonates under 2.5 kg and premature infants in NICU intubation. Vallecular-tip placement spares the relatively-floppy epiglottis from direct manipulation.

Neonatal-airway use

• NICU premature-infant intubation
• Term-neonate emergency airway
• Paediatric-anaesthesia neonatal-list

Size #00 Macintosh fiber-optic, AISI 304 stainless body with green-spec ISO 7376 fiber bundle. Manufactured in Sialkot.