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SS - "Be maximally proficient with a laryngoscope (I like the SF version from North American Rescue Products....light weight!!"
I have thought about switching to it from a traditional handle. Do you have rigidity problems with the NARP handle? I've heard some concerns regarding this.
Black Knight,
I brought mine into the O.R. and let the heavy handed anesthesiologists use it. Also used it in the Trauma bay under less than perfect conditions and it worked as well as the metal ones. The fiberglass blades held up fine and the connection from handle to blade never looked 'stressed'. The only (?) bad issue is that if the pocket clip breaks off the pelican light, it will slip out of the larygoscope handle (tube). That is the main friction contact point to keep it in the handle...I learned that one the hard way.........
ss
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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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