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Would you stick that laryngoscope blade in your mouth ????


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What procedures do you use to insure your blades are clean ? Do you autoclave, soak in cleaning agent, or use disposable. Would you stick any of the blades that are currently on your bus, in your own mouth. If not, why do your patients deserve less ?

We use disposables. And we're lucky enough to have ambulances.

What do you do to keep your blades clean, GA?

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We use disposable as recommended by OSHA.

If they need the blade, I think they could care less if it was dirty. Not that I would do that, prior to disposables, I always soaked them in bleach as that is all we had at our disposal.

Intubation is not a sterile procedure but merely a clean one.

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What procedures do you use to insure your blades are clean ? Do you autoclave, soak in cleaning agent, or use disposable.

Disposable blades

Would you stick any of the blades that are currently on your bus, in your own mouth. If not, why do your patients deserve less ?

I would prefer not to intubate myself, and I would discourage my patients from doing the same.

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