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Emergency Pocket Airway

Dr. French, inventor of the Emergency Pocket Airway and an Ear, Nose, and Throat Physician, states the following:
  1. In an emergency, unscrew the device from the end threaded onto the key ring.
  2. Unscrew the other end. A trochar and cannula will slide out.
  3. Perforate cricothyroid membrane or other accessible area of airway with trochar threaded within cannula.
  4. Withdraw trochar after it and cannula are within lumen of trachea.
  5. Thread small end of outer casing into hub of the cannula, thereby extending the length of what has become a breathing tube.
  6. Spontaneous or assisted breathing now possible. Ambu or respirator adaptable.
  7. Apparatus may remain in position during subsequent attempt at oral intubation.
(This device may also be used for retrograde threading of a guide through the vocal cords into the pharynx. It can thereby enable endotracheal intubation where visualization of the larynx is impossible.)

For more information, contact Dr. Ronald J. French of
New Orleans at ronaldjfrench@aol.com or fax:(504) 866-8507.

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