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Difficult Airway Assessment - LEMON Mnemonic

 - Look Externally
 - Evaluate
 - Mallampati
 - Obstruction or
Difficult Airway ... Assessment - LEMON ... #CriticalCare #Difficult ... #Airway #Evaluation
The child with stridor - Assessment and Differential
 - Croup 
 - Epiglottitis: 
 - Bacterial
with stridor - Assessment ... or congenital airway ... Diagnosis #Peds #Pediatrics ... #Differential #Assessment
Basic preoperative airway assessment conducted by anesthesiologists to assess intubation difficulty, along with the two commonly
Basic preoperative airway ... assessment conducted ... assess intubation difficulty ... do so based on airway ... anesthesiology #airway
Predicting a Difficult Airway
Prior to attempting intubation one should assess the airway. 
3-3-2 rule indicates normal
Predicting a Difficult ... Airway Prior to ... should assess the airway ... are visible: #Difficult ... #Assessment #Preop
Initial assessment and management of coma in pediatric population.

Airway - is it secure? 
Breathing — is
Initial assessment ... management of coma in pediatric ... Airway - is it secure ... care unit #Assessment ... #Coma #Pediatrics
Rapid Pediatric Assessment Diagram:
* Assessment of Appearance
  - Tone: Moves spontaneously, resists examination
  -
Rapid Pediatric ... Assessment Diagram ... : * Assessment of ... eye contact * Assessment ... Breathing - Airway
Anatomic Features Associated With Difficult Airways in Children
 • Impingement on airway lumen
 • Cervical spine
Associated With Difficult ... Airways in Children ... Impingement on airway ... EBmedicine #Difficult ... #peds #pediatrics
The Febrile Child - some diagnostic clues to evaluating the febrile child.

#Febrile #Fever #Evaluation #Assessment #Signs
some diagnostic clues ... Fever #Evaluation #Assessment ... Diagnosis #Peds #Pediatrics
Extubation Checklist Mnemonic - MASCOTS
M - Mechanism (Underlying mechanism improving)
A - Airway (Patent, difficult intubation)
S -
improving) A - Airway ... (Patent, difficult ... - Tube feeds (Pause ... (Sedation off, passes
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
oxygen delivery, airway ... • Check airway ... AND airway device ... adult, 10 ml.kg-1 paediatric ... o Endocrine cause