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The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.

Airway Registry & Checklists in Audio

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All you airway freaks are going to love this one… Own the Airway Audio is back with Minh talking to Royal North Shore’s Toby Fogg about airway registries, checklists and saving the world one emergency intubation at a time!

Befriend the bougie!

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John McGill and HQMEDED present a couple of fantastic videos on how to best use the bougie for emergency intubation (hat tip to EMCrit).

Own the Oxygen!

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Keeping your patient oxygenated during rapid sequence intubation has never been easier! Slideshows, talks and other resources that will show you how to master pre-oxygenation, apneic oxygenation and positive pressure ventilation to keep your patient from desat’ing.

RSI Checklist and Action Plan

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George Douros (who you’ll remember from Own the Oxylog 3000!) is back — this time he’s sharing with us his checklist and action plan for rapid sequence intubation. You’ll want to download these beauties ASAP.

Awake Intubation in Audio

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The second edition of Minh Le Cong’s airway management podcast is here. Minh talks to Seth Trueger, a chief resident and airway padawan of EMCrit’s Scott Weingart, about his experience with awake intubation in the ED. Essential listening if you’re thinking about introducing this fantastic technique into your own practice.

The LITFL Review 062

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The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care

Where’s the ETT?… No devices, no monitors… The Answer!

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We’ve made you wait quite a while for the solution to the airway riddle posed by an ‘old school’ anaesthetist… But, finally, the wait is over!

Where’s the ETT?… No devices, no monitors

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Can you solve this riddle posed by an ‘old school’ anaesthetist?

It’s up to us

Slide by Cliff Reid, Resus.ME

In the critical care specialties we have to make things happen, sometimes this involves life-saving actions that may have never before performed. We must be ready, after all, in the words of Peter Safar, “it’s up to us to save the world!” Cliff Reid tells us how.