At the IAFC’s Fire-RescueMed conference, the Heart Safe large community award winner was recognized for its resucitation efforts, which include placing video laryngoscopy on every ambulance.
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Best practices in airway management and education for EMS professionals and educators
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Study Concludes Air Transport Improves Survival Rates
Posted on 03 May 2012
Researchers, including EMS Airway Clinic author Samuel M. Galvagno Jr., DO, PhD., find helicopters to be more effective than ground ambulances for trauma patients’ outcomes.
Asthmatic Boy Dies during Transport to Third Hospital in 11 Hours
Posted on 27 September 2011
A 7-year-old asthmatic boy died in an ambulance en route to his third hospital in 11 hours in the Chicago area.
Direct Laryngoscopy Improves Choking Child’s Outcome
Posted on 11 August 2011
Two recent pediatric choking cases, one in Jersey City, N.J., and another in Oceanside, Calif., had ‘completely opposite outcomes but a common genesis.’ Find out from JEMS Editor-in-Chief A.J. Heightman, MPA, EMT-P, why direct laryngoscopy helped improve the Jersey City outcome and how you can keep your airway skills sharp.
GlideScope Video Laryngoscope Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Posted on 27 June 2011
Since the introduction of the GlideScope 10 years ago, the brand has forged the path for an entirely new category of airway devices: the video laryngoscope (VL) class.
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Featured Airway Products
GlideScope Ranger
The GlideScope Ranger video laryngoscope delivers consistently clear airway views enabling faster intubations in EMS settings. Available in reusable or single-use configurations.
GlideScope Cobalt AVL
The GlideScope Cobalt AVL video laryngoscope offers airway views in DVD-clarity, along with real-time recording. On its own or when combined with the GlideScope Direct intubation trainer, the Cobalt AVL is an ideal tool to facilitate instruction of laryngoscopy.
GlideScope AVL Reusable
The GlideScope AVL Reusable video laryngoscope offers airway views in DVD-clarity, along with real-time recording. On its own or when combined with the GlideScope Direct intubation trainer, the AVL is an ideal tool to facilitate instruction of laryngoscopy.
