TB Vets Gives $15,000

TB Vets Charitable Foundation made a generous gift of $15,000 towards a Glidescope for the Emergency Department (ER) at the Delta Hospital Campus of Care through Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation.

A Glidescope is a tool urgently needed by medical staff for intubating critically ill patients that have stopped breathing or cannot breathe on their own. In critical situations where seconds count, this tool is used to help patients suffering from cardiac arrests, congestive heart failure, trauma, anaphylactic shock and endoscopy traumas. The video technology of the Glidescope allows our physicians and respiratory therapists to visualize the larynx and create a direct line of sight to the airway. The device has a 60-degree angulation that allows a greater field of view, which facilitates navigation to the glottis. This is crucial because a physician or respiratory therapist can only make 3 attempts at intubation the conventional way before they must attempt alternative critical strategies.

“We are so thankful for TB Vets and their long history of helping fund priority equipment at the Delta Hospital campus and across British Columbia,” says Lisa Hoglund, Executive Director, Delta Hospital and Community Health Foundation. Since 1946, TB Vets has distributed over $16 million in funding across the Province for urgent respiratory equipment, education and research and are dedicated to helping British Columbians suffering from respiratory emergencies and illnesses.

Photo left to right: Lisa Hoglund, Executive Director, DHCH Foundation; Kandys Merola, CEO, TB Vets; Heddy Bing, Vice Chair, Board, TB Vets; and, Jodi Stokes, Major Giving Manager, DHCH Foundation