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Question: Posted 18-March-08

Are there any clinical advantages to using LED light illumination over current xenon bulb ?

Answer: Posted 18th March-08

Allow me to provide some information on this matter which is currently gaining importance amongst clinicians.
I have attached herewith a copy of a research based poster presented at the European Society of Anesthesiology (ESA) meeting in Munich in June 2007. This also appeared in Paediatric Anaesthesia, Vol. 17, June 2007, pp 606-607(2) as a prize winning research paper.

Optimal spectral irradiance for laryngoscopy

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EquipLite™

Disposable metal laryngoscope blade with LED light source.

Compatible with conventional system laryngoscope handles.

Prevents cross-infection
Saves hidden reprocessing costs
LED light technology means
- Strong, focused, reliable light
- Ideal blue-white spectrum
- Optimal viewing
- Longer battery life
Atraumatic tip for patient safety and comfort
Specially designed for safer, cleaner disposability
Color coded for easy size identification
Same great blade profiles in full range of Macintosh and Miller sizes

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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..."

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Tru-MR™

Lightweight low-magnetic signature Fibre Optic Laryngoscope System with brighter, whiter Xenon light.