Publications
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 "Optimal perioperative care of infants and children requires proximate availability of qualified medical personnel and contemporary equipment designed specifically for this purpose...." |
 Scrub or Toss? Making the Case for Disposable Laryngoscope Blades
by Laurie A. Romig, MD, FACEP, David Hudak, EMT-P, & Jeff Barnard, EMT-P, BHRM "Airway-management equipment undeniably assumes a position of prime importance in the EMS arsenal. Of all EMS interventions, appropriate airway management, along with early defibrillation, is most likely to be truly lifesaving. However, in the course of routine reevaluation of system equipment, Pinellas County (Florida) EMS recently had cause to ask whether or not we were potentially harming both patients and EMS practitioners in the long run with this very same lifesaving equipment..." |
 Reducing the risk of laryngoscopy in anaesthesitised infants
"All patients were nursed in isolation rooms. All patients had positive antibody tests. The ICU pool ventilators were used in nearly all hospitals; in one, a dedicated ventilator was used for patients with AIDS. Thcre was information about thc time between initiation of treatmeni and admission to the ICU in 18 of the cases. In only one case was the admission time greater than 7 days. This patient died. There was no discernible difference in the treatment-to-admission times between the survivors and nonsurvivors in this limited group." |
