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Difficult Airway Assessment - LEMON Mnemonic

 - Look Externally
 - Evaluate
 - Mallampati
 - Obstruction or
Difficult Airway ... Neck Mobility #Diagnosis ... #CriticalCare # ... Difficult #Airway
Anatomical Differences Between Pediatric and Adult Airways 
Pediatric airway is... 
• Proportionally smaller larynx 
• Narrowest
Pediatric and Adult Airways ... Pediatric airway ... Pediatric #Adult #Airway ... Differences #Anatomical #CriticalCare ... #Intubation #Diagnosis
Difficult Airway Conditions List (A to Z)

Difficult Airway Syndromes, Description and Potential Problems

By @dastrainees

#Difficult #Airway #Conditions
Difficult Airway ... ) Difficult Airway ... #Difficult #Airway ... Conditions #Syndromes #diagnosis ... #management #criticalcare
Chest Tube Drainage System - Chambers and Functionality
Clamp: simulates NO chest tube in at all
Chamber 1:
Chest Tube Drainage ... - "passive" drainage ... #Chest #Tube #Drainage ... System #Chambers #diagnosis ... #criticalcare
Conventional vs Airway Pressure Release Ventilation (APRV) - Pressure Waveforms 
 - Dr. Josh Farkas @PulmCrit

#Diagnosis
Conventional vs Airway ... Farkas @PulmCrit #Diagnosis ... #CriticalCare #
Balloon Visualization - Mechanical Ventilation Pressures - PIP, PPlat, PEEP

Peak Inspiratory Pressure (PIP): Dynamic pressure needed
of the lung) Airway ... unless excessive airway ... #PPlat #PEEP #CriticalCare ... #Diagnosis #Balloon
If your PIP and Plateau are both elevated then this indicates lung disease and decreased compliance
indicates increased airway ... resistance #Diagnosis ... #CriticalCare #
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
Differential Diagnosis ... lung sliding) Diagnostics ... Therapeutics: Airway ... Hypoxia #Workup #diagnosis ... Management #treatment #criticalcare
Initial assessment and management of coma in pediatric population.

Airway - is it secure? 
Breathing — is
Airway - is it secure ... Pediatrics #Peds #ABCs #CriticalCare ... #Diagnosis
Assessment of Chest Tube Drains
Stepwise assessment of Chest Tube Function
TUBE POSITIONING
 • Look at the CXR:
Check the DRAINAGE ... present in the drainage ... to the lung or airways ... injury to lung or airways ... ChestTube #Drains #Diagnosis