PPT-Responding to the Patient with a Difficult Airway

Situation 1 Airway Alert   Situation 2 Code Airway Patient Awake Resp Rate adequate HR Stable BP Stable O2Sats Stable NeckChest procedure Facialneck swelling Altered Mental State. Rigid laryngoscope blades of alternate design and size from t hose routinely used this may include a rigid fiberoptic laryng oscope 2 Tracheal tubes of assorted sizes 3 Tracheal tube guides Examples include but are not limited to semirigid stylets v Bill . Howie. DNP, CRNA. University of Maryland Medical Center/Shock Trauma Center. Uniformed University of the Health Sciences. Catholic University of America. 08 March 2014 MANA . Following this presentation the participant will:. 2014. Predicting the . P. ediatric . Difficult Airway. Maria Matuszczak M.D.. Division Chief . Pediatric Anesthesia. Department of Anesthesiology UT Houston . Nothing. Disclose. to. Incidence of . Airway management is really easy….. Except when it isn’t. DEFFINATION. Difficult Intubation is:. Failure to intubate with conventional laryngoscopy after an optimal/best attempt with:. Reasonable experienced . Erin Rosenberg, MD. Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology. Emory University. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. No financial . disclosures. Sedation outside of the Operating Room. Increased availability of short-acting sedatives. Team Based System Safety. Clinical Introduction For Physicians, Respiratory Therapists, Nurses. Your Hospital’s LOGO HERE. EMA Safety Leadership Group. 5,000 US Hospitals. All have Airway Vulnerabilities. EMS Instructor. Rapid Sequence . Intubation and Difficult Airway. Learning objectives. Define RSI. List Indications and Contraindications. Describe Basic Airway Anatomy. Identify and Describe RSI Pharmacology. Predicting the Difficult Airway. Jeffrey M. Elder, M.D.. Deputy Medical Director. When To Intubate?. Failure to maintain/protect the airway. Required for successful oxygenation and ventilation. Reflexes avoid aspiration. During a meal, have you ever noticed someone. Coughing?. Choking?. Gurgling?. Clearing their throat?. Chewing slower than normal?. Reporting chest pain?. Regurgitating their food?. These are all signs and symptoms of dysphagia!. Hospital. Airway Assessment . 1. If . Endotracheal Intubation . fails, you must have a . back-up plan. .... 8/3/2016. Combi-Tube. LMA. BVM. King-LTD. 2. Airway Assessment. History. Examination. History. Prof Qazi Ehsan Ali. Dept of . Anaesthesiology. . JNMedical. College, AMU, Aligarh. Airway issues in burns may be . classified into . two distinctive recovery stages:. acute burn injury and . chronic post-burn scar reconstruction.. Objectives. Understand the LEMON Law and why it is an important predictor of airways. Practice bagging and intubation. Practice utilizing airway adjuncts. Recognize a difficult airway. Approach to the Airway. Acetone in the anaesthetic room – time for a change. Through its core work to review recorded patient safety events the NHSE National Patient Safety Team identified a risk involving a LASA (Look Alike Sound Alike) error involving acetone and sodium citrate.. Acetone in the anaesthetic room – time for a change. Through its core work to review recorded patient safety events the NHSE National Patient Safety Team identified a risk involving a LASA (Look Alike Sound Alike) error involving acetone and sodium citrate..