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The standard prehospital intubation kit contains a range of equipment and may take up considerable space. For example, it might include a laryngoscope handle, multiple blades, multiple sizes of tracheal tubes, stylets, syringes, tape, a capnometer, and spare batteries and bulbs. There are situations in which minimizing the airway management pack might be necessary. For example, a wilderness or tactical mission requires smaller, compact equipment kits [11]. Over the past three decades, there have been major advances in miniaturizing medical devices, offering new options for portability, including, for example, portable versions of continuous quantitative end‐tidal CO₂ devices (Figure 4.7), suction devices, and video laryngoscopes.

An example of a condensed airway management kit is shown in Figure 4.8.

Figure 4.7 Small continuous battery‐powered end‐tidal CO₂ device.

(Smith Medical BCI Capnocheck)

Figure 4.8 An example of a condensed airway pack with a laryngoscope roll (added ET tube and bougie), supraglottic airway, and a cricothyroidotomy kit. (North American Rescue, King LT, H+H).

Source: North American Rescue, LLC.

It may be possible to select gear with multiple uses. For instance, a 14‐gauge IV catheter may be bent and used as a cricothyroidotomy hook. Along the same lines, one might secure the endotracheal tube with tape rather than a commercial endotracheal tube holder.