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Difficult Airway Algorithm

1. Assess the likelihood and clinical impact of basic management problems: 
 • Difficulty
Difficult Airway ... intubation • ... airway access ... • Video-assisted ... #Anesthesiology
Tracheal Airway POCUS prior to anticipated difficult airway
1. ID cricothyroid membrane evaluation
2. Confirm tracheal intubation
3. Detect
Tracheal Airway ... to anticipated difficult ... airway 1. ... intubation 3. ... #ultrasound #intubation
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 ... #Intubation #ATI ... #airway #management
Basic preoperative airway assessment conducted by anesthesiologists to assess intubation difficulty, along with the two commonly
Basic preoperative airway ... anesthesiologists to assess intubation ... difficulty, along ... management #anesthesia #anesthesiology ... #airway #intubation
Airway Intubation Confirmation on POCUS
Linear probe is placed on anterior neck at the level of the
Airway Intubation ... air-mucosal surface of trachea ... by movement @ trachea ... Herbst @EUSmkh #Airway ... POCUS #clinical #ultrasound
Nasogastric Tube Placement on Point of Care Ultrasound - Transverse View
The cervical esophagus is left of
Point of Care Ultrasound ... identifying esophageal intubation ... for the "double trachea ... Placement #clinical #video ... #pocus #ultrasound
Can’t Intubate, Can’t Oxygenate (CICO) - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
This is the last resort when
Check optimal airway ... , supraglottic airway ... C to intubate trachea ... CICO #Intubate #Intubation ... #Difficult #Anesthesiology
Airway Intubation Checklist
GATHER/TEST EQUIPMENT: NC, BVM + PEEP Valve, Free flowing IV, EKG, SpO2 monitor, ETT
Airway Intubation ... OPA, Suction, Video ... o Assess for difficult ... airway (LEMON) ... and secondary airway
Intraoperative Patient Fire - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia
Evidence of fire (smoke, heat, odour, flash, flame)
or in patient’s airway ... flow • Remove tracheal ... • Flood airway ... • Consider intubation ... #Fire #Anesthesiology
Intraoperative Bronchospasm - Guidelines for Crises in Anaesthesia

❶ Call for help and inform theatre team of
if possible – airway ... or obstructed tracheal ... or supraglottic airway ... or oesophageal intubation ... anaesthesia #Anesthesiology