Use of stylet and airway management procedure in critically ill patients. Author's reply.

Use first video laryngoscope for intubation procedure, if no video laryngoscope available, consider direct Macintosh laryngoscopy with Stylet8. As nicely written by Masuda et al. [[1]], using the Montpellier-intubation-protocol [[3]] first described by Jaber et al. in 2010 (Table 1) may help to decrease intubation-related complications. It is worth noting that a simplified version of the Montpellier-intubation-protocol [[5]] was externally validated by an American team and associated with an improvement in first-pass intubation success rates and a reduction in the rate of intubation-related complications. [Extracted from the article]