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field equipment
To all,
what are the active duty medics using for surgical airways, i.e., what equipment do they carry to secure an airway in the neck?
I figured this is not sensitive info, so if you can be specific I would appreciate it.
I am one of those trauma surgical educators that believes that what you learn in a book is a great foundation but the real world conditions dictate altering/modifying what the 'correct' or book procedure is. The best medics and docs are the ones that have the fund of knowledge that takes them 1, 2, ...6,7,8 steps further than the next guy who runs out of "ways to do it".
That hopefully is why I was asked to be part of this distinguished group by Team Sargeant.
Thanks for any info you can share.....inquiring minds want to know..
BTW, if I seem opinionated , I am...I am also educable (able to learn from everyone). I tell our residents all of the time that my way is better until someone proves me wrong, then I'll change to that way.....always learn, it helps save lives.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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