A Serious Problem In the Anesthesia Community

[soorg]

There currently exists a serious clinical problem that has caught fire within the anesthesia world, for which there seems to be no solution in the foreseeable future.

It is pronounced "Glide-scope," not "glide-ess-scope!"

See, the manufacturer thought it was being slick in naming it that way. It's a scope that allows the ETT to just glide past the vocal cords. Hence "Glide-scope." With the scope, you glide the ETT in. Get it?

So what's the problem here?! Can someone explain it to me?! Why do so many members of a given faculty continue to butcher a name that's clearly and phonetically spelled?

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[sleepallday]

what about "glide-a-scope"

just rolls off the tongue better

 

[OB1🤙]

Yeah drives me nuts. Almost as nuts as the apparent new trend by a bunch of anesthesiologists to use the damn Glidescope as their first-line airway tool for every patient.

 

[pgg]

The important thing is that it glidesses the tube to the right depth in sontimeters.

 

[Psai]

The important thing is that it glidesses the tube to the right depth in sontimeters.

Oh my god sontimeters
WHY?

It sounds so stupid, I can't take anyone seriously when they say this

 

[Mad Jack]

The important thing is that it glidesses the tube to the right depth in sontimeters.

Where the **** does this word even come from? Like, I've heard it many times over the years and I just can't fathom how they read "centimeters" and managed to piece it together phonetically as "sontimeters."

 

[IlDestriero]

French pronunciation. Cent...


--
Il Destriero

 

[deleted162650]

Just ask 'em if they shop at the 99 sont store or if you can borrow 50 sonts.

 

[soorg]

Like the bug I stepped on in the basement last week. Damn saantipede.

 

[Mad Jack]

French pronunciation. Cent...


--
Il Destriero

I should've known this would be the French's fault.

 

[Psai]

Man things were better in the 20th sontury. I'm just going to go have a walk in sontral park.

 

[narcusprince]

At my residency ccf, they called attendings professor and the glide scope was a glidescope. Also the term zu ze block or zu ze case was standard verbage.

 

[IlDestriero]

What is that last thing supposed to be? Zu ze?


--
Il Destriero

 

[DocFocker]

Yeah drives me nuts. Almost as nuts as the apparent new trend by a bunch of anesthesiologists to use the damn Glidescope as their first-line airway tool for every patient.

Why does this bother you? Does it bother you to use a nail gun instead of a hammer? Just playing devils advocate.

 

[Planktonmd]

It's GlideAssScope.... very simple!

 

[narcusprince]

What is that last thing supposed to be? Zu ze?


--
Il Destriero

Zu ze case=Do the case

 

[Laryngophed]

Yeah drives me nuts. Almost as nuts as the apparent new trend by a bunch of anesthesiologists to use the damn Glidescope as their first-line airway tool for every patient.

They sound like our ED residents. I'm not sure they can intubate without a fixed fiberoptic camera attached to the scope. Every time they rotate with us and ask about it, I ask them how well the glide-uh-scope works in people with small mouths and blood airways and what plan B is in those instances.

Blank. Stares.

 

[Wiscoblue]

Gly-duh-scope.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Temeraire]

One of my attendings in med school hated glidescopes and always ranted about how glidescopes were for the weak. He's incredibly facile with the fiberoptic bronchoscope, so I guess if an old fashioned DL didn't do the job, he'd just slip a tube in under 10 seconds with a FOB (he actually made me count how many seconds it took whenever we showed up to a "difficult airway" call together... just to drive the point home).

 

[deleted162650]

In homage to one of my more awesome (and very Taiwanese) attendings in residency, I like to call it the Gride-o-scope.

 

[sigrhoillusion]

In homage to one of my more awesome (and very Taiwanese) attendings in residency, I like to call it the Gride-o-scope.

How about the Grind-o-scope when the residents use the upper incisors as a pivot point...

 

[chocomorsel]

In homage to one of my more awesome (and very Taiwanese) attendings in residency, I like to call it the Gride-o-scope.

Oh My, this made me laugh out loud. Hilarious!!

 

[chocomorsel]

Zu ze case=Do the case

Who speaks like this? Russians? French?
Funny.

 

[vector2]

Who speaks like this? Russians? French?
Funny.

ze germans

 

[fakin' the funk]

Gride-o-scope.

If I may, I suggest that it was closer to "Grideyscope"

 

[deleted162650]

If I may, I suggest that it was closer to "Grideyscope"

Oh, ya rye.

 

[Iso4ane]

Slightly off-topic but on a parallel note, why do all the nurses pronounce it Yonker or Yawn-ker? It's clearly spelled Yankauer. How the hell do you get Yon/Yawn from (Y/Ya/Yan/Yank...) and ker from the latter half.

 

[GravelRider]

Well I am proposing a new pronunciation for the bougie. We currently pronounce it "boo-zhe." I want to start saying "boo-gie." I think it would make difficult airways a lot more fun and may even prompt a spontaneous dance when the intubation is successful.

 

[deleted162650]

Well I am proposing a new pronunciation for the bougie. We currently pronounce it "boo-zhe." I want to start saying "boo-gie." I think it would make difficult airways a lot more fun and may even prompt a spontaneous dance when the intubation is successful.

And that will lead to the bad joke:

How do you make a trachea dance?

Put a little bougie in it.

 

[narcusprince]

Who speaks like this? Russians? French?
Funny.

Have you ever been to Cairo

 

[chocomorsel]

Have you ever been to Cairo

I guess I haven't been around Egyptians enough to know.