A device particularly suitable as a support to the procedure of tracheal intubation, preferably embedded in a blade of a laryngoscope or similar instruments, and having two sets of flexible magnetic elements. The first set of magnetic elements being free to move forward or backward, under control of an operator, along the longitudinal direction of an operative channel belonging to the same device. The second set of magnetic elements is inserted in an endotracheal tube. The sets are aligned such that they have opposite polarity, whereby they can be used to guide and route the endotracheal tube.