The Fremantle Score app is an exciting and easy to use videolaryngoscopy application which has been developed by difficult airway enthusiasts in our Anaesthetic Department at Fremantle & Fiona Stanley (FSH) Hospital, Perth,Western Australia.
The app contains the following:
• Clinical tool to quickly score videolaryngoscopy attempts.
• Education, information and tips & tricks about every videolaryngoscope available in Australia.
• Easy CPD points
The Fremantle Score is an attempt to form a simple, informative and reproducible score that can be used for any of the videolaryngoscopic devices available.
We strongly feel that there needs to be a stand alone score for videolaryngoscopy that is distinct from the Cormack & Lehane system because of the poor correlation between view obtained and ease of intubation.
We have presented our work at both the SAM meeting in Toronto, Canada in 2012 and the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) meeting in London, UK in 2013 and 2014. We were winners of a prize at the DAS conference 2013.
Our original study “The development and preliminary evaluation of a proposed new scoring system for videolaryngoscopy” describes the background of the formulation of the Fremantle Score and is published
in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care.
The study to validate the Fremantle Score “Validation of videolaryngoscopy using the Fremantle Score” has shown it is more accurate and equally reproducible to Cormack & Lehane.
We hope you enjoy this wonderful free medical app.