We suggest that you use this area to link to

The CLASSICS

COLD STEEL

The DL blade that everyone uses and has been around for a long time. Regardless of a Macintosh or Miller blade. It has been around a lot, and worked well but has limitations.

You can rock the Handle and Blade back when you panic and break teeth. Too much Brutane.

This is what is considered standard of care so far. Any third world country should have one.

Just because it works most of the time, should it be the only device we persue, a better product can be made.

Once affordable, video laryngoscopy will be the new standard of care.  

If that COLD STEEL DL is all you have, be great at it. Try to be the best at it.

 Position the patient correcty, not completely supine, and use you ELM well. You may only have one shot on successful intubation.

BAG MASK VENTILATION

There are those of you believe its the only device out there for fault of the training you received and your lack of reading. 

Don't believe the hype.

Not all patients are Baggable to succesful oxygenation.

No one says it should be discarded. If that is all you have to protact that patient's airway and to keep viable oxygenation, you have no excuse not to be great at it.

It is a lost art, of doing it correctly. But even done right wll not prevent aspiration when a patient vomits.

BVM is much inferior to any SupraGlottic Device. Best to use a device that allows less soiling and overflow/aspiration into the glottic opening.

The Future?

Who is to say that an airway rescue device can't be modified that you can place and is safer than the CLASSIC endotracheal tube. Who to say we cant modify a SupraGlottic Device and use thisinstead of an intubation?

Use of the new Tablets such as Notion Ink Adam or Ipad2 or Blackberry Playbook or Motorola Xoom, and wireless connection with an airway device. Avoid the albatross of lugging an airway cart/tower with vcr, and dvr. Use of the tablet as a monitor and portable DVR, or educational purposes.