Free BladePouches to fight COVID-19
I am a practicing anesthesiologist. Email me at BladePouch@gmail.com and I will send you free BladePouches.
Watch YouTube videos on COVID-19 intubation. After taking all that precautions, they all just drop the dirty laryngoscope on the bed. You can protect yourself and your team by covering the dirty blade with a BladePouch. Quick, one-handed insertion of the dirty blade into a BladePouch without taking your attention away from the patient. After confirming ETCO2, you can take your time getting rid of the dirty blade.
"Sheathing the laryngoscope after intubation reduces contamination." [Pubmed] [Anesthesia&Analgesia]
--- Anesthesia & Analgesia, Nov 2015. Vol 121 - Issue 5: p 1209-1214, Birnbach, et al.
BladePouch, a disposable plastic pouch to isolate the contaminated laryngoscope blade after use.
The unique design and construction maintains the large triangular mouth open in a tent-like configuration. This permits quick one-handed insertion of the soiled blade into the pouch. (Read More ..)
Open configuration
One-handed insertion
Laryngoscope in storage
Instead of putting the dirty blade on the bed ...
put it into a BladePouch.
Instead of putting the dirty blade on anesthesia machine ...
keep it inside the BladePouch.