Hi, I'm Lieutenant Tommy Banaker and
welcome to What's on the Truck Tuesday.
Today we're going to be talking about
our video langoscope. This is a device
used to innovate a patient when we need
to perform advanced airway procedures
and to treat our patient appropriately.
As you can see, we have a couple pieces
of equipment here. One is our video
langoscope with our camera allows us to
visualize the actual airway. Our
lingoscope blade and our ET tube that's
used to actually enter the trachea. We
have our BVM. This provides ventilations
for the patient at any rate that we
decide and it provides 100% oxygen using
our oxygen tank here. So, prior to
intubating our patient with our air
track camera, we're going to provide
ventilations to our patient to make sure
they have enough oxygen prior to the
intubation attempt. So, this is our air
track camera. It allows us to visualize
the vocal cords when we enter the
patient's mouth. Uh the vocal cords are
the landmark that we use to know that
we're entering the endotrachial tube
into the trachea and not into the
esophagus. A couple patients that we
might uh feel the need to use this on is
somebody with airway burns, someone that
has just been involved in a drowning,
any cardiac arrest patients, or someone
with severe respiratory distress. So,
when performing the inhibation attempt,
the blade enters the patient's mouth,
glides on the tongue, and allows us to
visualize the vocal cords. Once we
visualize the vocal cords, the ET tube
is placed inside the actual trachea, and
then we confirm it using multiple
methods in our truck.
The ET tube is then secured inside the
patient's mouth. A balloon is filled to
allow it to not
dislodge. And then we use our Thomas
lock to secure the
tube inside the patient's mouth. Now
with our tube secured, we can use our
bag valve mask hooked up to 100%
oxygen and ventilate the patient,
provide oxygen as necessary. Thank you
for watching and happy EMS week to all
those who serve our community.