Jellybean #51; JimDuCanto -Do something That Outlives You
Do Something that outlives you.\n\nJim Du Canto just keeps making stuff. @RollCageMedic caught up with him in Dublin and chewed the cud, the fat and the kids toys.\n\nI have kids. You might have kids. Even if you don\u2019t have kids you probably were a kid at some point in the past. Kids chew up and spit out plastic toys. Plastic can be recycled but that is perhaps better called downcycling. Jim DuCanto however is upcycling left over smashed up Star Wars toys to make me and you better at what we do.\n\nJim is a well known anaesthetist (aka anaesthesiologizer) and inventor of the SALAD (Suction Assisted Laryngosopic Airway Decontamination) simulator as well as the Hi-D Airway Suction Catheter, the intubatable Wookie head and the Uescope Intubating Stylet.\nJim talks about what drives him to make these airway toys and openly discusses the commercial and altruism balance of airway device development. We also dip toes in the emerging area of 3D printing for task simulators and clinical equipment.\n\nAs Maz Kanata said; \u201cI like that Wookie.\u201d