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I'm a paramedic student and I always see medics with the BAAM devices hanging off of their stethoscopes. I was wondering where you get the piece to hold the device on your stethoscope?
 
I have never seen it and a quick google search gave me no results.

There is really no reason to carry a BAAM on your person regularly. Nasal intubations are a very rare thing to do (I know several medics who have only done it once it 15+ years of being a medic).
 
I have a couple months left of a 14 month program. I've been taught all throughout school that it's just as common as intubating orally because it's indicated in so many situations now. Overdose, trauma excluding any facial trauma, chf, postictal pt who you believe may seize again. I have never
Done/seen it done, but then I've only had 3 tubes so far outside of my OR time and they were all codes. The point to my long boring story was though that most rigs down here you can never find on and they're useful to have.
 
Nasal intubation is very rare where I am. We have RSI, CPAP, and retrograde intubation. That said most airways can be managed bls.
 
Our service will maybe nasaly intubate one person a year. It's become far less common as the older medics leave the system. We still carry BAAMs and Enditrol tubes, but it's VERY uncommon here. And there is NO reason to mount a BAAM on your stethoscope.
 
I've seen a few medics with BAAM devices on their stethoscopes, but none here. I agree with previous posts. Seems tacky and unnecessary to me, particularly with how rarely we nasally intubate. Sounds like just another piece of bling to hang on the Bat Belt.

I did know one old medic who kept a 3.0 mm ETT adapter on his stethoscope for attaching needle crics to BVM. Probably even less common than NTI, but I can only imagine he got burned without having one at some point.
 
Im an oddball in that I've done 4 NTIs in the last two years, but thats what happens whrn one of your services doesn't carry CPAP... but even then I've never carried a BAAM on me. Its usually in my airway kit
 
We still have NTI in the protocols, but you would get some odd looks and probably a grilling from the medical directors if you shove a tube in somebody's schnoz here.
 
DEmedic said:
We still have NTI in the protocols, but you would get some odd looks and probably a grilling from the medical directors if you shove a tube in somebody's schnoz here.
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I got yelled at by an ER physician about one of them. But he is one of the ones who keeps forgetting I had the patient for over an hour before I got to them...
 
Hell, it's such an unused skill that my county doesn't even have it in our protocols.
 
Cooler than a little koala bear clip on the 'scope.

Keep it in in the belt pouch next to the bite stick, double-male O2 hose adapter, double-male suction hose adapter, spare O2 washer and O2 wrench, and latex-free velcro TK.
 
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