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Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... likelihood and clinical ... impact of basic management ... airway management ... #Anesthesiology
Basic preoperative airway assessment conducted by anesthesiologists to assess intubation difficulty, along with the two commonly
Basic preoperative airway ... assess intubation difficulty ... do so based on airway ... #clinical #management ... #anesthesia #anesthesiology
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
meningococcal, H1N1) Clinical ... Weakness: mild difficulty ... Clinical Features ... Albuminocytologic dissociation ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
management is in ... By Association of ... Intubate #Intubation #Difficult ... #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Predicting an anatomically and/or physiologically challenging airway is not a straightforward task by any stretch of
some existing difficult-airway ... management. ... to address this clinical ... Heaven #Criteria #Difficult ... #Airway #RebelEM
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
or in patient’s airway ... • Flood airway ... of injury By Association ... #Fire #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
Other drugs at clinician ... X-ray as soon as clinically ... Hydrocortisone By Association ... anaesthesia #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
transplantation CLINICAL ... vary from mild difficulty ... albuminocytologic dissociation ... specific therapy, the clinician ... Syndrome #diagnosis #management
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
Increased Airway ... cause of increased airway ... By Association of ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... Checklist #Diagnosis #Management
Obstetric patients often pose challenges to anesthesiologists, as lab values and parameters vary from a non-pregnant
patient data or clinical ... #diagnosis #clinical ... #management #anesthesia ... #anesthesiology ... References: American Association