Nasal pharyngeal airways

[Leapfrogger2]

NPAs and OPAs (and other airway devices) are a tool for trained people. If I'm off duty I'm going to think real hard about giving one to somebody who I don't know and won't die without one. Too many people run around with tools they aren't trained to use.


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[jerrymrc]

NPAs and OPAs (and other airway devices) are a tool for trained people. If I'm off duty I'm going to think real hard about giving one to somebody who I don't know and won't die without one. Too many people run around with tools they aren't trained to use.


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I will agree. Do I have them? sure. Do I carry them in the kit that goes to the range? No. Have I been trained? yes. Have I ever used one on a real person? no.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I will agree. Do I have them? sure. Do I carry them in the kit that goes to the range? No. Have I been trained? yes. Have I ever used one on a real person? no.

I'd be curious how many folks here have done this.
I was an EMT for all of college, and although this was a long time ago, I never once used one even on 911/fire calls. Never intubated. Never used the defib.
These are some exotic toys we're talking about for a first aid kit. Difficult for me to get excited about this kind of thing when I didn't get to use them even when I wanted to do so.

At this point, I don't even have a CPR card anymore, though.

[Irving]

NPAs and OPAs (and other airway devices) are a tool for trained people. If I'm off duty I'm going to think real hard about giving one to somebody who I don't know and won't die without one. Too many people run around with tools they aren't trained to use.

I think that the instructions for NPAs are so simple, and they are so cheap, that people pick them up. However, it seems like in order for one to be necessary, the rest of the situation would be far from "simple."