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ETT depth may be predicted based on the patient’s height.  This has been validated among
This has been validated ... A height-based algorithm ... volume to your airway ... checklist (example ... #Checklist #ETTDepths
Combined Difficult Airway Society and Vortex Approach to the Emergency Airway

The Emergency Airway Cognitive Tool contains
essentials of the DAS ... algorithm and the ... Intubation #Management #DAS ... #Difficult #Algorithm ... Emergency #Tool #Checklist
The Trauma Call Timeline

- A trauma team assembles rapidly in response to a major trauma alert
trauma alert and has ... assessment follows the mnemonic ... assessment of airway ... for venous blood gas ... Teamwork #Approach #Checklist
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
Increase fresh gas ... pressure gas trapping ... arterial blood gas ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
or in patient’s airway ... ventilation AND fresh gas ... • Flood airway ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
Consider alternate diagnoses ... a chest X-ray as ... soon as clinically ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Hypertension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Hypertension is most commonly due to inappropriate depth of
• Check fresh gas ... and hypercarbia as ... alfentanil can be diagnostic ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Hypotension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Hypotension is commonly due to unnecessarily deep anaesthesia, the autonomic
Increase fresh gas ... intrathoracic pressure as ... rhythm, treat as ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Cardiac Arrest - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

The probable cause is one or more of: something
As soon as ... • Confirm airway ... CardiacArrest #Checklist ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Intraoperative Tachycardia - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Tachycardia in theatre is often due to inadequate depth
not be treated as ... • Check fresh gas ... • Confirm airway ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management