The History of the Laryngoscope: Who Invented the Mac Blade?
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In the annals of anesthesiology, few inventions are as pivotal as the Macintosh laryngoscope, with its curved blade fundamentally changing airway management. The curved blade, or Mac blade, was invented by Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh, a New Zealand-born British anaesthetist, in the early 1940s. This innovation allowed for a new technique of laryngeal exposure that was both safer and more reliable than the methods that preceded it.
