SALT Airway

A big thanks to Pat Miller and Mike Hall for the Newest tool in our airway bags

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SALT
• Airway
• Difficult airway
• EMS
• EMT
• Paramedic

[pmdc8722]

the issue is in older patients whom are supine (larger and floppier epiglottis). it was very difficult to get the needed displacement with the tongue blade provided. This is an issue that is being addressed with the manufacturer and should be solved by now. Just remember I put myself in positions that i could not use a BVM effectively. That was the goal. it wasn't easy, or ideal, and that is the point of the SALT airway. It is refractory as if now, but could catapult forward shortly.

[pmdc8722]

I made this video. I cannot stress enough the need for anterior tongue displacement. We conducted a study at Newton Medical Center EMS on the product and I used it in the field as a primary adjunct. I personally found that a patient laying supine is the worst enemy of the SALT. However, it does not mean that it does not work, it just means that there is an issue.

[pmdc8722]

What a HUNK doing this video!!!!! Love u, GB

[guitarguyf50]

seems like a interesting device to make intubation in the field easier. only thing i did not like about this video was the fact that they probably overinflated the cuff to the ETT.

[mrmeaner69]

Apparently we have the wrong manequin to use the SALT on. I guess it'll give you something to do during extrication. I think I'll stick with digital intubation.

[jfirebalrog]

This is another valuable tool,but I have to agree there are going to be tons of limitations with it.As long as the pt is of average size,with their neck in neutral/hyperextended position it should work well.If you start adding in smaller or larger people,hyperflexion and rotation you will have as much luck,but it still adds another option before retrograde inubation or a cric.

[399productions]

awesome product...just used it for the first real time thirty minutes ago and it worked like a dream. totally intubated in less than ten seconds...will be stocking this on all our trucks now

[brantleymoore]

I was able to play with this on 2 different dummies in a class. 30 people used it and never missed. One person had real world experience with it and he claimed it "really worked" on difficult tubbings.

It was created by a medic from Dekalb Co. Georgia.

[hageloco]

it is! belive me!

[sprtanbaseball]

I was part of a study with this device using both a dummy and then a couple days later in a cadaver lab. In the dummy lab it worked just as easily as shown in this video. The cadaver was a different story, nearly everyone was unsuccessful in using this device for blind intubation. In theory this is a wonderful tool but with varying anatomies the real world application wasn't as promising.

[quater52]

I would really like to know, if anyone has made any reliable experience in the field with this device so far.

Looks so easy, safe and effective.