Providing healthcare professionals with a safer, more efficient tool for securing airways, every time.
Vie Scope®
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The Vie Scope® provides clinicians with a reliable solution for airway management when conventional laryngoscopy proves difficult. Its internally illuminated, enclosed tubular design delivers a consistent, well-lit view of the glottis, even in contaminated or compromised airways.
Its innovative, user-friendly design simplifies even the most difficult intubations, offering healthcare professionals a reliable, effective tool in both controlled and unpredictable environments.
The Vie Scope is used to insert a bougie or tracheal introducer under direct vision via straight line of sight between the vocal cords and into the trachea. The Vie Scope is not designed to pass an endotracheal tube directly through it.
Whether in the field, the ER, or in surgery, the Vie Scope® delivers unmatched performance when it’s needed most.
Key Features of the Vie Scope®
- Straight, transparent illuminated tube for unobstructed view.
- The light is transmitted through the side wall of the tube from end to end as well as from within the lumen of the tube, providing excellent direct vision without the risk of obstruction by secretions or blood.
- Minimal training required.
- One-size, reducing inventory and possible costs.
- Perfect for difficult airways.
- No batteries, portable and ready for use in any setting.
Why Choose the Vie Scope®?
Every clinician encounters difficult airways. When first-line approaches start to fail, the Vie Scope provides a straightforward, effective alternative before more invasive techniques are required. By combining simplicity with illumination and control, it helps clinicians secure the airway when it matters most. Equally suited for midline or paraglossal techniques.
The steps involved in intubating a patient with a Vie Scope® are as follows:
1. Insert Vie Scope using either hand directly to the vocal cords i.e. BELOW the epiglottis.
2. Under direct vision using a straight line of sight pass a bougie between the vocal cords to the appropriate distance.
3. Remove the Vie Scope keeping the bougie is the same position in the patient.
4. Pass an endotracheal tube over the bougie into the trachea to the appropriate depth.
5. Remove the bougie, confirm ventilation.
Although the Vie Scope® can be successfully used with any bougie, we recommend the Voir Bougie. With its unique colour depth markers, for fast and efficient airway access without the risk of damage to other anatomical structures that can be caused by inserting a bougie or ET tube too deep.
Ordering Information.
For more information, please contact us.
Tel: 01264 332172
Email: info@CCMed.co.uk
WARNING: These videos are for demonstration purposes only. They do not replace local training and protocols. It is the responsibility of the hospital or care provider to ensure all of their team are trained and competencies are signed off before using the products described in these videos.
Vie Scope® Overview
A review of the Vie Scope® by Dr Tan
How to avoid dental injuries during intubation – Mr Vasan
Vie Scope® – making difficult airways, easier
We hope you found the videos of interest. To learn more or request a demonstration please contact us on 01264 332172, email info@ccmed.co.uk or use our contact form.
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Yes – the Vie Scope is for adults and the bébé Vie Scope™ is for Paediatrics (using the sideways technique with any ET tube with an ID <6.0mm – or via a bougie).
The Vie Scope is used with adults, to insert a bougie or tracheal introducer under direct vision via straight line of sight between the vocal cords and into the trachea. The Vie Scope is not designed to pass an endotracheal tube directly through it.
The Vie Scope design is intentional as its current width allows an excellent direct view to the vocal cords but is narrow enough to negotiate past the mandible, maxilla and tongue. The steps involved in intubating a patient with a Vie Scope are as follows:
- Insert Vie Scope using either hand directly to the vocal cords i.e. BELOW the epiglottis
- Under direct vision using a straight line of sight pass a bougie between the vocal cords to the appropriate distance
- Remove the Vie Scope keeping the bougie is the same position in the patient
- Pass an endotracheal tube over the bougie into the trachea to the appropriate depth
- Remove the bougie, confirm ventilation
The Vie Scope is the only one of its kind in the world and has two US patents. It is based on an ENT rigid metal anterior commissure scope. Unlike other angled or curved intubation blades, the Vie Scope is a straight enclosed clear tube where the tip of the scope directly reaches the true vocal cords. This gives the user a ‘straight line of sight’ to the true vocal cords without tissue obstructing the view. The idea is to pass a bougie under direct vision between the vocal cords through the Vie Scope which will then serve to pass the endotracheal tube over it into the correct position.
Unlike all other laryngoscopes including video laryngoscopes which have a ‘single’ light source at the (distal) end of the blade, the Vie Scope has a ‘ring’ of multiple LEDS at the top (proximal end) of the clear tube. This light is transmitted BOTH through the side wall of the tube as well as within the lumen of the tube. This configuration minimizes the risk of obstruction of the light source so in difficult airways with bleeding, secretions and vomit, the user has a much-improved view of the airway.
The Vie Scope illumination can last hours, more than enough time for its use. The shelf life is 5 years; both exceed the ISO 7376 standard.
Yes. The Vie Scope was specifically designed for the difficult airway. The provider should be trained to use the Vie Scope and should be comfortable with it. Provider judgement is important as any patient with obvious airway obstruction may need an immediate surgical airway i.e. cricothyroidotomy or emergency awake tracheostomy. The Vie Scope can be used without sedation i.e. in awake patients to minimise the risk of losing the airway with sedatives or muscle relaxants.
Yes. The Vie Scope can be used in either hand.
Yes. The Vie Scope can be used in any situation.
Yes. The Vie Scope is single use only and must be disposed of after use.
The Vie Scope is very strong and exceeds the ISO 7376 standard for blade strength. However, the Vie Scope does not require great force or power to quickly visualise the vocal cords.
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