What to know about intubation in veterinary medicine
During an interview, Alyssa Mages, CVT, emphasized the importance of understanding what intubation is and how to perform it, plus shared creative ways to educate veterinary teams on this procedure.
In an interview at the Atlantic Coast Veterinary Conference (ACVC), Alyssa Mages, CVT, cofounder of Empowering Veterinary Teams (EVT), outlined several benefits that come with training veterinary technicians on how to intubate, including improved clinic workflow, plus shared a few training models designed to help educate teams on this procedure and more.
View the video below for the entire discussion. The following is a partial transcript:
Alyssa Mages, CVT: Intubation is not something that [veterinarians] have to do right? [Technicians] are absolutely grateful that we have wonderful veterinarians that step in when we can't do things but to make [veterinarians] lives a lot easier, especially to keep your workflow more efficient and effective, get your technicians trained up [on intubation].
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