I am hoping for some feedback from folks- I'm a new CA2 and certainly my direct laryngoscopy skills have improved immensely over the past year. However, I still have one problem that's driving me nuts... when using a MAC blade, I am almost always super close to the patient's teeth. I've been asking attendings for weeks now about feedback re: my technique, what i might be doing wrong, etc. No one has told me that I'm doing anything drastically wrong, need to change things up, etc.
It's driving me nuts, because I'm not sure that other folks have this issue. I had one attending who told me he is also usually close to the teeth with a MAC, and doesn't worry once you are keeping the blade static and not moving it and of course not pulling it backwards.
I don't know if my problem is that i'm not using enough forward/upward "force" on the handle? Not keeping enough neck extension? I find that I get a perfect view when I DL and have my right hand under the head to get a little extra extension, but as soon as I take my right hand out to grab the tube the back of the blade falls closer to the teeth...
Any advice, or thoughts from someone else who has had this issue? I really want to fix it but I don't know what I should be doing differently... thanks!
It's driving me nuts, because I'm not sure that other folks have this issue. I had one attending who told me he is also usually close to the teeth with a MAC, and doesn't worry once you are keeping the blade static and not moving it and of course not pulling it backwards.
I don't know if my problem is that i'm not using enough forward/upward "force" on the handle? Not keeping enough neck extension? I find that I get a perfect view when I DL and have my right hand under the head to get a little extra extension, but as soon as I take my right hand out to grab the tube the back of the blade falls closer to the teeth...
Any advice, or thoughts from someone else who has had this issue? I really want to fix it but I don't know what I should be doing differently... thanks!