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Ruben: If we're going to choose a default plan A for our most of our intubations, it should be video, video laryngoscope with a standard geometry blade. That gives us sort of the best of both worlds, meaning you can do direct orvideo laryngoscopy using the same blade. Now, if any of these topics are a little bit difficult to understand on the podcast and you need more reinforcement, I strongly encourage you to go over to Ruben's site, emupdates.com. He just posted a great 10-minute screencast discussing VL versus DL,. And again, more accurately, standard geometry blades versus hyper-angulated blades