mouth opening. You won't have the time to scramble to find the video
laryngoscope. If you could start with the laryngoscope that gives you
the best success when unexpected difficult intubations occur, why
wouldn't you always have one at your elbow?
Cost was the main obstacle to having a video laryngoscope in every
OR. Maybe you'd be able to purchase 1 or 2 to cover all your ORs.
Thankfully, that's all changing as prices continue to drop.
A couple years ago, a video laryngoscope cost about $10,000. Now
you can purchase one for about $2,000 to $3,000 (the price of ours just
dropped from $2,500 to $1,800!). Our disposable plastic blades, which
come in boxes of 50, cost $10 each. By comparison, it costs about $12
to use a standard disposable laryngoscope: $9 per disposable handle
and $3 per disposable blade. So we're saving $2 per intubation using
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