TROOP PILLOW

DO IT FOR THE OBESE PATIENT:

• Ease of breathing
• Better pre-oxygenation
• Good positioning compliments gea & regional cases

DO IT FOR THE ANESTHESIA PROVIDER

• Ease of breathing = less anxious obese patient.
• Better pre-02 = increased desaturation safety period.
• Easier to mask ventilate
• Facilitates 1st pass successful intubation (good positioning compliments all forms of airway management … dl, glidescope, airtraq etc.)

JUST ADJUST THE O.R. TABLE:

• Not good enough
• The airway axes do not change
• You cannot adjust the cystoscopy table

TEP = EASY / STABLE / PREDICTABLE (RESULT)

• Meant to replace a stack of blankets
• “Blessing of the blankets” (but) today’s obese patients = a stack of unstable blankets