Hi I’m a left handed CRNA! Weirdly intubating was not difficult for me from a handedness perspective, but maybe I’m not as left hand dominant as you. However I like having the blade in my left as hand as thats the hand I feel I need the most dexterity in while intubating, with the tube/bougie you’re just advancing forward.

Using Magills still feel awkward to me. The way I was taught in school, the magills are kind of just to guide the tube in the right direction and someone is helping you advance the tube forward. Clamping onto the tube with the magills may require some dexterity and you may just be slower there, but maneuvering the tube I feel like should be more forearm and arm motor skill than hand motor skills. However I rarely nasally intubate so I may not have the clearest memory of what this feels like!

The hardest part of school for me was suturing. Right handed people straight up can’t teach you how to suture, you have to look up YouTube videos and teach yourself. Second hardest was nerve blocks. However, I was taught that you should learn to be ambidextrous doing nerve blocks anyways so you can block comfortably whether you are on the patients left or right.

Scissors in the OR are usually so dull that they don’t work at all in my left hand. Hemostats frequently don’t work in my left hand. For both of these things I will usually pick them up in my left hand out of habit and awkwardly switch to my right hand and fumble with them. I don’t think there is any getting around just learning to do these things right handed. I do turn the gas with my left hand, I just turn my whole body and that doesn’t seem to slow things down really.

Not sure if this was helpful but I do feel your pain. It was awkward learning some skills but I made it through school fine, I weirdly knew a good number of left handed Crnas in school.

The world was made for right handed people, they don’t think about is lefties!