Airway

by Chris Nickson LITF sources from "Own the airway" collection Suctioning - How to properly suction a patient's oropharynx http://youtu.be/dXROo5YlC3o Ventilation - Open the airway and ventilate via a bag-valve-mask using…

by Chris Nickson From Life in the Fastlane collections we publish the most interesting online video resources about the airway management. LITF sources from "Own the airway" collection. Preoxygenation is the first step. Buy yourself some…

Dr. Mario Rugna Dear collegue, wathever intubator you are, occasional or regular, feel free to submit any comment on the plan and also fell free, if you think it’s useful, to use and share it. It will be appreciated. Following some…

EBEM Commentators Angela Hua, MD Kaushal H. Shah, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, NY Noninvasive ventilation in chest trauma patients may reduce the requirement for intubation and may reduce…

The Vortex is a “high stakes cognitive aid” - simple enough to be recalled in a crisis and flexible enough to be used in any context. Our philosophy is to train staff for management of the unanticipated difficult airway in the same manner…

It’s been a busy day. On the way home you notice a small knot of people gathered around a middle-aged person, prostrate on the pavement. The bystanders look uncertain of what to do. Do you stop and help?. Now there's a new app: the…

By Rob Bryant MDFOR THE SLIDES INCIDENCE: 1:200 AIRWAYSWHO: Anticipate need for cricothyrotomy in any patient, especially in patients with a predicted difficult airway.CricCon scoring system (unvalidated) is helpful to guide level of…

As has been discussed in a previous post, patients with sub-massive PE (hypoxic, tachycardic, some troponin rise, etc…but no hypotension) remain in a grey zone, which is, to me , a dubious situation at…

In the United States, Emergency Medical Services rescuers provide out-of-hospital treatment to patient suffering life-threating conditions such as cardiac arrest, stroke, seizure, respiratory failure and major…

A group of researchers from the University of Messina, led by Professors Giovanni Neri and Nicola Donato, is developing a system which may be operational in about 4 years, financed to the tune of 90,000 dollars by Samsung’s Advanced…