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Category Airway
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Bronchoscopic Anatomy

Reviewed and revised 21/2/13 OVERVIEW Dave Pilcher’s 4 rules for finding where you are: the trachea is D shaped, the flat wall is posterior the RML bronchus is anterior the apical (aka superior) segmental bronchi of the lower lobes are…

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Endotracheal tube cuff leak

Endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff leaks vary from trivial problems to life-threatening emergencies. Detectable air leaks affect up to 11% of ICU patients
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Airway and Cervical Spine Injury

Airway and Cervical Spine Injury. about 30% of trauma patients (depending on the study) require intubation <30 minutes of arrival in ED. airway management must take into account the risk of coexistent cervical spine injury, the mantra being "airway management with cervical spine stabilisation"
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Paediatric Airway

The paediatric airway differs from that of adults in terms of anatomy, and there are important management implications
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Coroner’s clot

OVERVIEW 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) So named…

CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Unplanned extubation

Unplanned extubation of mechanically ventilated patients is relatively common ( 0·5% to 14·2% of ICU patients in most studies, higher in a few outliers)
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

Video laryngoscopy

Video laryngoscopy: multiple types of video-assisted laryngoscope devices are available. Four step procedure (Mouth - Screen - Mouth - Screen):