Nasal pharyngeal airways

[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.