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Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... supraglottic airway ... airway access ... airway management ... #airway #algorithm
Awake Tracheal Intubation (ATI)
 • ATI Technique
 • Ergonomics for ATI
 • Managing Procedural Complications
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Awake Tracheal Intubation ... ATI in Adults Difficult ... Airway Society ... #ATI #airway #management ... #anesthesia #criticalcare
Anatomic Features Associated With Difficult Airways in Children
 • Impingement on airway lumen
 • Cervical spine
Anatomic Features ... Airways in Children ... Impingement on airway ... #Airways #Children ... #anesthesia #differential
Basic preoperative airway assessment conducted by anesthesiologists to assess intubation difficulty, along with the two commonly
Basic preoperative airway ... difficulty, along ... do so based on airway ... clinical #management #anesthesia ... anesthesiology #airway
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
Check optimal airway ... , supraglottic airway ... staff and surgical airway ... ). ❹ Call for airway ... #Anesthesia #Intraoperative
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 ... #Airway #Prediction ... Assessment #Preop #Anesthesia
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 ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia
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
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 ... Anesthesiology #Anesthesia ... #Intraoperative