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Just wanted to give you all a little heads up on this, particularly if you moonlight at a variety of places with variations of this equipment:
If you're used to using the old one piece Glidescope without the disposable clear blade and switch to the new one with the disposable blade, be aware that this new unit comes with a holder for the light wand made of gray plastic that is shaped somewhat like the old unit.
In your hand, the new Glidescope light wand + gray plastic holder feels very much like the old Glidescope blade.
Now theoretically this light wand holder should be bolted to the blue plastic holding tray so that you can't pick the whole assembly up and try and put it in someone's mouth during a crash intubation.
Theoretically.
In practice, someone may not have taken the time to do this, and this innocent looking piece of gray plastic may have the light wand in it, sitting in that blue plastic holding tray looking somewhat like a device you might be able to intubate someone with.
If you're used to using the old one piece Glidescope without the disposable clear blade and switch to the new one with the disposable blade, be aware that this new unit comes with a holder for the light wand made of gray plastic that is shaped somewhat like the old unit.
In your hand, the new Glidescope light wand + gray plastic holder feels very much like the old Glidescope blade.
Now theoretically this light wand holder should be bolted to the blue plastic holding tray so that you can't pick the whole assembly up and try and put it in someone's mouth during a crash intubation.
Theoretically.
In practice, someone may not have taken the time to do this, and this innocent looking piece of gray plastic may have the light wand in it, sitting in that blue plastic holding tray looking somewhat like a device you might be able to intubate someone with.
