Personal Note
It gives me great pleasure to follow the efforts of my wonderful friends in the airway world.
The utility of the video Laryngoscope is now well established but nothing is magic and nothing is so good it cannot be replaced and improved on.
One of my great memories was going to midlevel residents in University teaching hospitals and telling them
Demonstrating the Glidescope ....If you learn how to use this device you will be the "Go To " person in your department for difficult airways and you can build your career on the basis of leading change in airway management.
I would then observe the faculty as they adopted quickly or slowly depending on their attitude towards change. I knew that attitude was the most important quality.
"The Army of the Willing"
This is a phrase which I adopted to determine how long I was prepared to spend educating a potential user. If someone was eager I would spend all day but if they had a poor attitude I would move on to find the willing learner in seconds .
Always spend your maximum teaching effort on the willing potential enthusiast.
Thankfully the Verathon Glidescope team is executing brilliantly on my original vision and also on new ideas that are truly spectacular..
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