Intubating LMA
the intubating LMA (Fastrach™) is a specially designed supraglottic airway device (SAD) that can be used as a conduit to facilitate intubation
Category Airway
ETT Stylet
ETT stylet is a device that allows the endotracheal tube (ETT) to be stiffened and the shape molded as desired.
Direct versus Video Laryngoscopy
the advent of video laryngoscopy has led to some experts stating that it should be considered 'standard of care' (a loaded term) or at least best practice, this had led to vigorous and sometimes heated debate, especially in the emergency medicine community
Direct Laryngoscopy
Direct laryngoscopy is the use of the laryngoscope to visualise the vocal cords (larynx) under direct vision, usually to facilitate endotracheal intubation.
Difficult Airway Algorithms
Difficult Airway Algorithms. Difficult airway algorithms are useful for considering all the contingencies that may occur during intubation
Delayed sequence intubation (DSI)
Delayed sequence intubation (DSI) is procedural sedation, where the procedure is preoxygenation. DSI may be useful in the patient for whom rapid sequence intubation would inevitably result in significant hypoxaemia because they cannot be preoxygenated by other means
Airway Obstruction
Complete obstruction of the upper airway occurs when there is inability to talk, cough or breath. Apnea and cyanosis are present and paradoxical respirations may be noted.
Cricoid pressure
Cricoid pressure aka Sellick manoeuvre or, most accurately, cricoid force;the technique was first described in 1961 by Sellick to prevent aspiration, though Monroe used a similar method in 1774 to prevent gastric insufflation
Can’t Intubate
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Coroner’s clot
The 'Coroner's clot' is an occult clot of blood remaining in the nasopharynx behind the soft palate following local surgery or trauma that has the potential to cause fatal airway obstruction following extubation/ removal of a supraglottic airway device (SAD)
Bougie
Bougie, aka Eschmann tracheal tube introducer. the name "gum elastic bougie" is erroneous - it is not made of resins, it is not elastic and it is not used for dilatation
Trismus and Restricted Mouth Opening
Trismus classically refers to reduced opening of the jaws caused by spasm of the muscles of mastication (temporalis, masseter, medial pterygoid and lateral pterygoid). Trismus may also be used to refer to restricted mouth opening in general