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Are You Ready for Ebola? - November 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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LETTERS & E-Mails letters@outpatientsurgery.net 2 1 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 | O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E Rescuing Joan Rivers ◗ Re: "The Death of Joan Rivers: What Went Wrong?" (October, page 26). Assuming laryngospasm was the likely culprit, whether dedicated anesthesia providers were present or not, what sort of ENT surgeon does not know how to puncture the cricothyroid membrane (when a patient is approaching extremis) to bypass a laryngospasm he is unable to manage? Failing such a cosmetically dis- figuring maneuver, even directly spray- ing the spasming vocal cords with lido- caine would have probably saved Ms. Rivers from death. Barry L. Friedberg, MD Corona del Mar, Calif. drfriedberg@drfriedberg.com Pink Panty Stunt Indefensible For the Record ◗ The McGrath Video Laryngoscope pictured in "Video Views of Airway Visualization Devices" (September, p. 56) should have been listed as a product of Teleflex, not LMA North America, the sub- sidiary com- pany that Teleflex acquired in 2012. ◗ Re: "Man Sues After Waking From Colonoscopy Wearing Pink Panties" ( tinyurl.com/q6fgzct ). No mat- ter how funny the staff involved thought they were being, this behavior is indefensible. Any adult and licensed professional should have known better than to participate in such a stunt. The plaintiff will recover on this issue, because there is no accept- able explanation for this. The facility has no one to blame but itself for this egregious behavior. Louis G. Stanfield, CRNA, PhD Mercy Medical Center Sioux City, Iowa lgstanfield@hotmail.com www outpatientsurgery.net Outpatient S urgery S Saying 'I'm Sorry' After an Error p. 24 7 Cool Ways to Use Mobile Devices p. 34 What's Hiding in Your GI Scopes? p. 41 HD Displays: More Than A Pretty Picture p. 63 October 2014 R Magazine The Death of Joan Rivers What Went Wrong? What Went Wrong? The Death of Joan Rivers Lessons learned from the endoscopy that was anything but routine. P. 26 Lessons learned from the endoscopy that was anything but routine.

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