I can sympathize with your concerns, however, nearly every Paramedic training program in the Country is faced with those same problems. First of all, many anesthesia groups don't want the liability or the hassle of having paramedic students. Secondly, the teaching hospitals also have the anesthesia physician and nurse students to accommodate and they usually have priority over us. Thirdly, depending on the type of surgery, most OR's are predominantly using LMA's and doing fewer intubations. All of these situations make it more difficult to get student paramedics live tissue intubations.
