10/10/17 - Seeing benefits with Video Laryngoscope at Sun Prairie EMS

On October 10, 2017, we spoke with Sun Prairie EMS regarding their use, training and experience with video laryngoscopes.

What Sun Prairie EMS has learned:

• Continued simulation mannequin training is necessary, skill retention was lacking
• Need to stress to the users of the device to use it how it was designed..
• Medics were not suctioning adequately prior to attempted placement
• Each medic needed to increase familiarity with devices, systems and airway anatomy.
• The overall goal was ‘mastering the normal’, which resulted in difficult airway management becoming easy and impossible airways becoming possible to manage.