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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..." |
