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Difficult Airway Society - Intubation Checklist

Prepare the patient 

Prepare the equipment 

Prepare the team 

Prepare for
Difficult Airway ... Prepare the team ... difficulty #Airway ... #Intubation #Checklist ... #Management #CriticalCare
Combined Difficult Airway Society and Vortex Approach to the Emergency Airway

The Emergency Airway Cognitive Tool contains
Combined Difficult Airway ... designed to help the team ... management in stressful ... #Intubation #Management ... Emergency #Tool #Checklist
Airway Intubation Checklist
GATHER/TEST EQUIPMENT: NC, BVM + PEEP Valve, Free flowing IV, EKG, SpO2 monitor, ETT
Checklist GATHER ... OPA, Suction, Video ... /INDUCTION o Position ... #intubation #checklist ... #management #procedure
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
management is in ... the patient is positioned ... extension. ❽ Operator position ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Increased Airway Pressure - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

Using these steps from start to end should
• Check position ... o Aspiration, pulmonary ... #Pressure #Differential ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
The Trauma Call Timeline

- A trauma team assembles rapidly in response to a major trauma alert
- A trauma team ... multidisciplinary team ... assessment of airway ... to guide early management ... Teamwork #Approach #Checklist
Intraoperative Laryngospasm and Stridor - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre
inform theatre team ... • A correctly positioned ... negative-pressure pulmonary ... Intraoperative #Checklist ... #Diagnosis #Management
Hypotension in Anesthesiology - Differential Diagnosis and Management 

Initial checklist: 
 - Verify BP (e.g. surgeon
Anesthesiology - Differential ... Diagnosis and Management ... Initial checklist ... Head down position ... #Diagnosis #Management
Hypoxemia / Hypoxia - Rapid Response Management Algorithm

Stridor - Upper airway pathology:
 • Anaphylaxis
 • Foreign
Rapid Response Management ... Stridor - Upper airway ... Movement - Lower airway ... Hypoxemia #Hypoxia #differential ... #Diagnosis #Management
Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Positive airway pressure therapy
   → Positive pharyngeal transmural pressure
Apnea Positive airway ... Stabilizes upper airway ... exercise, sleeping position ... SleepApnea #Treatment #management ... #pulmonary