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Basic preoperative airway assessment conducted by anesthesiologists to assess intubation difficulty, along with the two commonly
Basic preoperative airway ... anesthesiologists to assess intubation ... do so based on airway ... management #anesthesia #anesthesiology ... #airway #intubation
Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... Difficult supraglottic airway ... Difficult surgical airway ... process of difficult airway ... #Difficult #airway
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
or in patient’s airway ... material from airway ... • Flood airway ... • Consider intubation ... #Fire #Anesthesiology
Airway Intubation Confirmation on POCUS
Linear probe is placed on anterior neck at the level of the
Airway Intubation ... Confirmation on POCUS ... If esophageal intubation ... Herbst @EUSmkh #Airway ... #Confirmation #POCUS
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
if possible – airway ... or supraglottic airway ... suspected → 3-1 ❽ If airway ... aspiration suspected airway ... . ⓬ If raised airway
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
Check optimal airway ... , supraglottic airway ... oxygenation via upper airway ... staff and surgical airway ... ). ❹ Call for airway
Intraoperative Laryngospasm and Stridor - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre
stimulation. ❸ Remove airway ... obstructing the airway ... sure that the airway ... 2-3 Increased airway ... . ⓫ Continued airway
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
Increased Airway ... cause of increased airway ... oedema; bronchial intubation ... #Differential #Anesthesiology ... #Anesthesia #Intraoperative
Intraoperative Hypertension - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Hypertension is most commonly due to inappropriate depth of
oxygen delivery, airway ... bellows moving. ❸ Airway ... Check position of airway ... • Confirm airway ... • Feel the airway
Tracheal Airway POCUS prior to anticipated difficult airway
1. ID cricothyroid membrane evaluation
2. Confirm tracheal intubation
3. Detect
Tracheal Airway ... POCUS prior to anticipated ... difficult airway ... #Tracheal #Airway ... #POCUS #trachea