Clinical study shows faster, easier intubation with Parker tubes

Brian Radesic, CRNA, MSN, associate director of the graduate nursing anesthesia program at the University of Akron College of Nursing, received the AANA’s 2011 Clinical Instructor of the Year Award at the AANA’s annual meeting on August 7-9 in Boston, and presented a clinical study conducted by himself and others, which concluded that intubations performed with a GlideScope were faster and easier when a Parker tube was used instead of a standard ET tube.

Many nurse anesthetists attending the AANA meeting stopped at the Parker booth to relate their appreciation for the Parker tubes which have made their intubations considerably easier. At the AANA’s invitation, Dr. Parker taught for 2 days at the AANA’s Difficult Airway Workshop.