Hey folks, Scott Weingard here, and this is the M-Crit podcast. Today on the podcast, the topic I'm

surprised I have not covered yet, but it's going to be on hyperangulated laryngoscopy,

tips and tricks for mastery. And I bet even if you've been using this device for years,

you'll get at least one or two tips that you did not already know

that will change your practice. If not, I will refund your full money for this episode.

So it's weird, I'm jumping the gun on this because very soon it will be January, January

that, I believe I coined that term, and I should be doing this then, but I can't,

I just can't wait. I just wanted to cover this. So hyperangulated laryngosopy mastery.

And I am old enough in the profession to remember when video laryngoscopy had first come on

the scene. We had learned direct laryngoscopy with Macintosh and Millers,

and now there was this new video device, and we all wanted to get our hands on it. Now,

the only video devices out there were the glide scope with a hyperangulated blade. That's all you got.

If you went video, that's what you got. And this device, it looked like it was going to be

amazing.

All of a sudden, you have views on a screen, and we were all super excited.

And then you started hearing the stories.

Now, luckily, I was never witnessed or party to any of these, but I heard the stories from our program and programs all across the U.S.

and case reports in the literature of pharyngeal trauma, never had a part of that.

But what I did

see, not uncommonly, was you'd have this amazing view of the cords, and you just couldn't get a

tube in, and you just, like, what the hell's going on here? A lot of people went back to direct,

and it's because there was no training for the specificities of this technique in contradistinction to what we already knew. Our program

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