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What is airwayNautics?
The eventual dream is for this to be a collection of blogs/ podcasts/ airway stories and a multimedia encyclopedia/reference/teaching tool on all things airway that we AirwayNauts can think of. It is...
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Surgical airway training: technical and nontechnical skills and trainers
Procedures that are high acuity, high stakes, time sensitive and low in frequency like the surgical airway require repeated training in both the technical and nontechnical aspects. The actual procedure...
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Tactile Bougie (Blind Digital) Intubation
Sept 8, 2015 … visitors … oops, sorry but this was supposed to be in draft form but looks like it got released unknowingly by me. Please standby, there is more to come! Yen Circumstances that this will...
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Response to difficulty: Use Mac Like Miller
When indirect control of the epiglottis and laryngeal exposure proves difficult by the traditional Mac blade approach of placing the blade tip in the valleculae, consider repositioning the blade like...
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Training Airway Decontamination: the Flip Side of Ventilation Centered Airway...
In airway management, oxygenation and ventilation are the overriding priorities and fluids in the airway must be avoided and managed at all costs. It’s not about plastic in the trachea – Rich Levitan...
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Overwhelming regurgitation/hematemesis – Diverting Esophageal Tube
Airway case review, lots of fluid in the airway, continuous vomiting/regurgitation, continuous suction hardly keeping up … — Yen Chow (@TBayEDguy) October 3, 2015 Should you GOOSE the tube, don’t lose...
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Elevate the Head/Put the Head Forward: Twitter passions on head, neck and...
Follow the twitter links for the insanity It all started very innocently with this question (again) on twitter. This keeps popping up on Twitter. Appears to be great method to OBSCURE view. Thoughts...
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Recipe for SALAD (Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination)...
Make electrical safety a top priority with this setup, please. Here are the basic construction instructions to create the Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination (SALAD) simulator (AKA...
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Definitive airway on BMI 92 hypoxic hypercapnic respiratory failure
Some time ago, in this galaxy, our good friend Jorge Cabrera was faced with managing respiratory failure in a 55’ish year old man with BMI of 92 (ht 6 feet, wt 675 lbs (307kg). This patient was...
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Push Dose Pressor Labels/Orders
During a slower emerg shift on Christmas day 2015, I finally designed push dose pressor labels and sticker orders/instructions for mixing that work with the labels in our emergency department. I use...
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Managing high fluid airway situations
Collected tweets on managing persistent flooding of the airway with fluids (blood or gastric fluids) @AnaesthesioRR Interesting article https://t.co/XR3mqL9yu9 describing 4 methods but would also...
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Optimal Bag Mask Valve Ventilation
What are all the things that must be done to achieve optimal BVM? Here are some ways to remember and various pearls. 3X4 ways to BVM There is the 3 step program (3 sets of quadruplets). Working on...
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Airway Topicalized Anesthesia
This will be under construction to collect information on airway topicalization Airway topicalization recipe George Kovacs AIME approach to airway topicalization...
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Cognitive Resilience?
@TBayEDguy I have been thinking about it…and, yes, I think that may be a good idea — Michael Lauria (@ResusPadawan) February 4, 2016 @ResusPadawan agree it is not in the way I have seen it defined …...
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Resuscitation Sequenced Intubation Toolkit
Resuscitation Sequenced Intubation – HT Rich Levitan These are some resources that can be used during an intubation: checklist, quick reference drug doses and contraindications, order sets on labels...
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Pediatric airways are easy but scary
This was originally posted on my 2 day old Facebook community experiment: T Bay Air Based Rounds
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Ornge Kit Dump Checklist Deployment
Originally posted on my Facebook community page #TBayAirBasedRounds
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Checklists will not fly a plane
Originally posted on my Facebook community page #TBayAirBasedRounds
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The mantra for optimal position
Originally posted on my Facebook community page #TBayAirBasedRounds
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The response to challenging laryngeal exposure
Originally posted on my Facebook page #TBayAirBasedRounds
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