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Video Laryngoscopy
With the advanced airway debate comes a need for solutions. Obviously increased training and QI/QA are at the top of the list. Another option is the Glidescope. This device is just one of a few video laryngoscopy devices that has shown phenomenal ...
Second comment from Anonymous on Teaching Airway - Part I
There is also a thoughtful analysis of airway management and intubation in Airways and ET tubes... at 9-Echo-1.In the comments to Teaching Airway - Part I - comment from Anonymous, Anonymous writes - Hi, me again...Nothing brings out a good post from...
Airway comments by Rachel
So there I am sitting at home, still not finished with my response to the most recent comments from Anonymous - 3 parts, due to Blogger's character limit (4,095 characters if I remember correctly - not as limiting as Twitter's 140, but . . . ), when ...
Teaching Airway - Part I - comment from Anonymous
In the comments to Teaching Airway - Part I, Anonymous writes - We get it, No. You do not get it. You misrepresent what I wrote. Maybe others get it and maybe not, but all I can tell from your comment is that you do not get it.This reminds me of deba...
Teaching Airway - Part I
Also posted over at Paramedicine 101. Go check out the rest of what is there.On Teaching Airway: EMS Educast Episode 33, they have Kelly Grayson as their guest. The first of many times they will have Kelly Grayson as a guest. Hint! Hint! Kelly say...
Lee County EMS Airway Management Guidelines
Today at our monthly inservice training, we were introduced to our new airway management protocols. I must say I am impressed, and excited. Many of the things that RM especially, has been advocating are outlined. ETCO2 has been required on all adva...
Airway Research
The following study is just another example, supporting my opinion on the outcome of properly trained prehospital personnel. Rogue Medic has been screaming this stuff from the blogshere rooftop. It takes much more training than you would probably t...
Too Many Medics? comment from Anonymous
Sorry for the long post, but . . . In the comments to Too Many Medics?, Anonymous wrote:Grrr. Really trying to make an inflammatory post, aren't we RM ? Are you kidding? I tone it down to keep it nice and polite. ...
Prehospital Intubations and Mortality - comment from RevMedic
RevMedic is not a name that signifies driving very fast - revving the engine - but that is what pops into my head every time I see his name. I know. I am by-passing St. Peter. I am not collecting 72 virgins. I am going straight to the great big tanni...
PediCap Product Recall
This is the Pedi-Cap.For comparison, here is the Pedi-Cap next to its big brother/sister, the Easy Cap II.It is tiny. To give you another idea of the size, here it is being used on an itty-bitty baby, who could fit in my hand.Photo creditThis device ...
Cardiocerebral not Cardiopulmonary
PubmedPURPOSE OF REVIEW: To discuss recent findings surrounding the role of ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation for individuals with out-of-hospital primary cardiac arrest. RECENT FINDINGS: Active assisted ventilation during primary card...
Prehospital Intubations and Mortality - comment from 30 ff/pm
In the comments to Prehospital Intubations and Mortality: A Level 1 Trauma Center Perspective I, 30 ff/pm wrote:Like most studies done by someone who wants their name in a publication, this one is throws out some numbers as if they mean something. ...
Prehospital Intubations and Mortality - A Level 1 Trauma Center Perspective II
A new study of EMS intubation appears to show that prehospital intubation is a bad thing. I do not agree. I wrote about this earlier in Part I.Let me point out some more of the ways that I think this study demonstrates that the problems, and there ar...
