This is James DuCanto‘s talk at the airway session at The Bick Sick in Zermatt, 2018.
Jim is well known in the FOAM sphere and beyond for his passion on airway management and is a very dedicated and ingenious inventor of equipment for airway simulation and airway management.
In recent years, Jim has focused a lot of energy on the SALAD concept (suction assisted laryngoscopy airway decontamination) which essentially is continuous suctioning of the airway through the whole intubation process. He has demonstrated it at numerous conferences throughout the world including, now, in Zermatt for TBS. The amount of flights cases he drags around the world for the setup is quite insane and a testiment to Jim’s no holds barred approach to life. If you get a chance to try it out do take it, as it’ll probably be your one shot at intubating a regurgitating wookie with a laryngoscope fitted to an axe.
For more information on DuCanto’s work visit his website.
Follow Jim down the rabbit hole of contaminated airways in this talk.