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Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... likelihood and clinical ... supraglottic airway ... surgical airway ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia #CriticalCare
Difficult Airway Conditions List (A to Z)

Difficult Airway Syndromes, Description and Potential Problems

By @dastrainees

#Difficult #Airway #Conditions
Difficult Airway ... Airway Syndromes ... #Airway #Conditions ... #Syndromes #diagnosis ... #management #criticalcare
Difficult Airway Assessment - LEMON Mnemonic

 - Look Externally
 - Evaluate
 - Mallampati
 - Obstruction or
Difficult Airway ... Neck Mobility #Diagnosis ... #CriticalCare # ... Difficult #Airway
Anatomic Features Associated With Difficult Airways in Children
 • Impingement on airway lumen
 • Cervical spine
Associated With Difficult ... Airways in Children ... EBmedicine #Difficult ... anatomy #anesthesia #differential ... #diagnosis
If your PIP and Plateau are both elevated then this indicates lung disease and decreased compliance
indicates increased airway ... resistance #Diagnosis ... #CriticalCare # ... Pressure #Plateau #Differential
Predicting an anatomically and/or physiologically challenging airway is not a straightforward task by any stretch of
some existing difficult-airway ... to address this clinical ... #Diagnosis #EM # ... Heaven #Criteria #Difficult ... #Airway #RebelEM
REVISE - Withholding Pantoprazole for Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Critically Ill Patients: A Pilot Randomized Clinical
Ill Patients: A Pilot ... Randomized Clinical ... pneumonia and C. difficile ... #Prophylaxis #CriticalCare
Transplant Infections Timeline
Pre-transplant:
 • Common bacteria (endogenous): Staphylococci (skin), Gram-negative bacilli (gut)
 • Viruses: HSV (reactivation)
Engraftment:
Clostridioides difficile ... (airways) • Viruses ... jirovecii (airways ... Infections #Timeline #differential ... #diagnosis #causes
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
and Management Differential ... Diagnosis: Aspiration ... lung sliding) Diagnostics ... Therapeutics: Airway ... Management #treatment #criticalcare
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Dysphagia:Oropharyngeal:
- Characterized by difficulty initiating swallowing and accompanied by choking/coughing, nasopharyngeal
Characterized by difficulty ... epiglottis (occlude airway ... coordinated by medulla #Diagnosis ... #Differential # ... Extraluminal #Algorithm #Differential