How I manage a difficult intubation | Critical Care | Full Text
2019年5月16日 · An anatomically difficult intubation (sometimes referred to as a “difficult airway”) involves challenges in viewing the vocal cords (difficult laryngoscopy) or passing a tube into the trachea (difficult endotracheal tube placement).
Unanticipated Difficult Intubation in an Adult Patient
2023年1月29日 · The goals of this activity are to review some subsets of patients that are at the highest risk for difficult or failed intubation. Discuss techniques, strategies, and algorithms to aid successful airway management when encountering unanticipated difficult intubation.
Difficult Intubation in the ICU: Why and How to Prevent and …
The objectives of this review are to describe new tools (i.e. MACOCHA Score) to better identify patients at high risk for difficult intubation and new strategies for improving preoxygenation before intubation and decreasing difficult intubation incidence, using specific algorithms.
10 Rules for Approaching Difficult Intubation - Anesthesiology …
2018年8月24日 · Blind nasal intubation and fiber-optic intubation were common procedures. Primary use of instruments like the GlideScope and the McGrath video laryngoscope has revolutionized intubation of the marginal airway and made the …
PREDICTING DIFFICULT INTUBATION Tracheal intubation is best achieved in the classic “sniffing the morning air” position in which the neck is flexed and there is extension at the cranio-cervical (atlanto-axial) junction. This aligns the structures of the upper airway in the optimum position for laryngoscopy and permits the best
dificult airway is defined as the clinical situation in which a conventionally trained anesthesiologist experiences dificulty with facemask ventilation of the upper airway, dificulty with tracheal intubation, or both. The dificult airway represents.
Difficult Intubation: Indications, Intubation Process, and More
2024年4月22日 · Difficult intubations are complex procedures, but they can be easier and more successful. The key is to execute them with research-backed approaches like: Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) – this is especially beneficial in patients with inadequate oxygenation and patients who experienced trauma.
Difficult airway algorithms and checklists - Critical Care Airway ...
The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) publishes evidence-based, peer-reviewed guidelines for unanticipated failed intubation. 1 These guidelines outline relatively simple airway skills, several of which are listed as core competencies for trainees by CICM, ACEM and ANZCA, and all of which are covered in the CCAM course.
Difficult Airway Algorithms • LITFL Medical Blog • CCC Airway
2024年7月1日 · When the mouth is blocked (step 2), intubate through the nose or through the neck (cricothyroidotomy). RSI is specifically done to optimize laryngoscopy conditions and permit oral intubation. If it is apparent that the oral route has obvious anatomic problems (not merely potential difficulty), RSI should never be considered.
Emergency Airway Management Part 3: Intubation – the procedure
2017年12月11日 · After appropriate resuscitation and pre-oxygenation, we can start with the procedure of intubation. Consider the anatomy of the patient. A lot has been written about predicting the anatomically difficult airway.