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01-06-2018 | Images in Anesthesia
The Williams Airway Intubator
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 6/2018
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The Williams Airway Intubator (often colloquially called the Tudor Williams Airway) is an oral airway devised by Robert Tudor Williams (1928-2017). Born in Swansea, Wales, Williams attended medical school and undertook the greater part of his anesthesia training in Cardiff. He emigrated to Canada in 1960, where he completed the final two years of anesthesia residency in Edmonton, Alberta. He moved to Calgary in 1966 and was one of the founding members of the Department of Anesthesia at the Calgary Foothills Hospital.1
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A) The original prototype Williams Airway Intubator was a modified Portex Guedel airway with the distal half open on its lingual surface. The proximal bite area was made circular in cross section by using the barrel of a 10-mL syringe. The image is from Williams RT, Maltby JR. Airway intubator. Anesth Analg 1982; 61: 309, used with permission.3 B) Dr. Robert Tudor Williams: August 20, 1928 - April 22, 2017. C) The Williams Airway Intubator comes in two adult sizes and allows passage of an endotracheal tube up to 8.5 mm in size
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