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CICM SAQ 2012.2 Q22

November 28, 2012 by Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Approach to a COPD patient with known difficult intubation

Filed Under: Clinical Interpretation, FCICM II, Intensive Care, SAQ Tagged With: airway, CICM, Clinical Case, Clinical Interpretation, difficult intubation, examination, exams, FCICM, FCICM II, Fellowship, SAQ

Befriend the bougie!

April 25, 2012 by Chris Nickson 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, Pre-hospital / Retrieval, Resuscitation, Video Tagged With: airway, bill hinckley, bougie, emcrit, emergency intubation, hqmeded, john mcgill, scott weingart, seth trueger, Video

Trauma! Chest Injuries I

March 21, 2012 by Chris Nickson 2 Comments

A Q&A approach to the recognition and management of life-threatening chest injuries in the major trauma patient.

Filed Under: Education, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Trauma Tagged With: airway, blunt, chest injuries, chest tube, flail chest, hemothorax, life-threatening, oesophageal rupture, open pneumothorax, penetrating, pneumothorax, tamponade, trauma tribulation

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

March 8, 2012 by Minh Le Cong 2 Comments

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!

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Intensive Care Tagged With: airway, anaesthetic addler, endotracheal tube placement, puzzle, question, riddle

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

February 28, 2012 by Minh Le Cong 43 Comments

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

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Intensive Care, Pre-hospital / Retrieval, Resuscitation Tagged With: airway, anaesthetic addler, endotracheal tube placement, puzzle, question, riddle

CICM SAQ 2010.1 Q9

January 28, 2012 by Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Airway management of sick child with stridor.

Filed Under: Clinical Case, Education, FCICM II, Intensive Care Tagged With: airway, CICM, Clinical Case, examination, exams, FCICM, FCICM II, Fellowship, pediatric, SAQ

CICM SAQ 2009.2 Q30

October 25, 2011 by Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Major burns – airway and coma

Filed Under: Clinical Case, Clinical Interpretation, FCICM II, Intensive Care, SAQ Tagged With: airway, CICM, Clinical Case, coma, examination, exams, FCICM, FCICM II, Fellowship, major burns, SAQ

CICM SAQ 2012.1 Q26

October 8, 2011 by Chris Nickson Leave a Comment

Pathophysiology of oxygen and ventilation dysfunction in the burns patient.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: airway, burns, CICM, Clinical Case, examination, exams, FCICM, FCICM II, Fellowship, oxygenation, SAQ, ventilation

Choose Your Own Resus Adventure!

March 29, 2011 by Gerard Fennessy 11 Comments

Get ready for an insanely edutaining roller-coaster ride through the perils of ruling the resus… Oh, and try to stay out of the courtroom if you can.

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, Intensive Care, Resuscitation Tagged With: ACLS, advance directive, airway, BLS, breathing, circulation, code, difficult airway, not for resuscitation, Resuscitation

Own the Airway!

February 9, 2011 by Chris Nickson 28 Comments

Bougie-assisted digital intubation. (a) After the epiglottis is identified by palpating it with the long finger of the left hand, the bougie is threaded through the glottis and advanced into the trachea. Tracheal clicking elicits tactile vibrations, which confirm tracheal placement of the bougie. (b) The bougie is withdrawn slightly so that the 25-cm mark is at the corner of the lip. The endotracheal tube is threaded over the bougie while the bougie is stabilized in place. (c) With the bougie held in place, the endotracheal tube is turned a quarter turn to the left and then advanced to an appropriate depth. (d) The tube is held in place while the bougie is withdrawn. Tracheal intubation is then confirmed using capnography or an esophageal detector device.

The LITFL team have scoured the web to find the best collection of online instructional videos known to man or woman to help you ‘own the airway’!

Filed Under: Anaesthetics, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Intensive Care, Video Tagged With: adjuncts, airway, bougie, cricothyrotomy, emcrit, intubate, intubation, needle, open, Own the Airway, oxygenate, ventilate