Recent content by Mad Russian

Basically not a fan of the ridgid stylet used with it generally if I utilize the glidescope I use an ET Introducer rather than the stylet provided.

My service utilizes both the Glidescope and the Kingvision meaning one truck has the glidescope and the other two carry the King, I like both but prefer the King to the Glidescope.

Overall survival rate in traumatic arrest is 3% these people generally stay dead, I would have presumed him on scene.

If someone has an isolated GSW or Stab Wound to an extremity no but I have seen plenty of GSW's that have pinballed around and the patients were more grievously wounded than previous thought due to location of enty wound. For example I had a patient with an entry wound to his left hip the...

Etomidate is a useful agent for procedural sedation because it provides effective, brief, deep sedation with little hemodynamic compromise.

Full size jelly jar required trip to OR.

I like the glidescope but it is not considered first line in my service it is generally only first line with a predicted difficult airway, we have three response trucks in service and we have one glidescope and two kingvision scopes which are also great and more cost effective.