Computer Tomographic Assessment of Gastric Volume in Major Trauma Patients

Computer Tomographic Assessment of Gastric Volume in Major Trauma Patients

In major trauma patients, overall stomach volume deriving from food, fluids and air must be expected to be around 400–500 mL. Gastric dilation caused by air is common but not typically associated with pre-hospital airway... read more

Preventing Major Airway Complications

Preventing Major Airway Complications

Every anaesthetist fears the moment they might become faced with a "can't intubate, can't oxygenate" (CICO) scenario, but thankfully such events are exceedingly rare. They nevertheless receive much attention in the academic... read more

Safe Airway Management for the Patient with COVID-19

Safe Airway Management for the Patient with COVID-19

In this presentation, Dr Ravi Bhagrath, Consultant Anaesthetist at Bart’s Health, London asks Dr Kariem El-Boghdadly, Consultant in Anaesthesia at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London about the IntubateCOVID... read more

Outcomes With the Use of Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation During Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial

Outcomes With the Use of Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation During Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Pragmatic Airway Resuscitation Trial

Bag-valve-mask-only ventilation is associated with improved OHCA outcomes. Despite similar rates of ROSC and 72-hour survival, BVM-rescue ventilation was associated with improved survival to discharge and neurologically intact... read more

The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management is the world's most trusted reference on emergency airway management, and is the foundation text in the nationally recognized The Difficult Airway Course: Emergency and The... read more

Safe Airway Society Principles of Airway Management and Tracheal Intubation Specific to the COVID-19

Safe Airway Society Principles of Airway Management and Tracheal Intubation Specific to the COVID-19

Transmission of COVID-19 is primarily through droplet spread. These droplets are affected by gravity and may cause direct transmission from close contact or contribute to surface contamination (where the virus may remain... read more

COVID-19 Airway Management – The Role of Simulation

COVID-19 Airway Management – The Role of Simulation

Health services around the world are faced with the challenge of preparing for the impact of COVID-19 on their communities as we all prepare for a potential global pandemic. I see a great role for simulation in process... read more

New Study on Prehospital Airway Control Trial Underway

New Study on Prehospital Airway Control Trial Underway

Emory University Department of Emergency Medicine and Grady Memorial Hospital will take part in a U.S. Department of Defense-funded clinical trial to compare different ways to help people with traumatic injuries breathe. The... read more

Airway Management in Microgravity

Airway Management in Microgravity

In the near future, space programs will shift their focus toward long‐duration interplanetary missions, in particular to the Moon and Mars. These exploration missions will be associated with an increased risk of acute medical... read more

Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department

Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department

In a conversational, easy-to-read style, Avoiding Common Errors in the Emergency Department, 2nd Edition, discusses 365 errors commonly made in the practice of emergency medicine and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips... read more

AIRWAYS-2

AIRWAYS-2

AIRWAYS-2 looks at the initial advanced airway management strategy for paramedics attending out of hospital cardiac arrests, essentially whether or not the aim should be to place a supraglottic airway device or an endotracheal... read more

Lighter Emergency Breathing Tubes Associated with Higher Survival After OHCA

Lighter Emergency Breathing Tubes Associated with Higher Survival After OHCA

In the LT group, 18.3% of patients survived 72 hours in the hospital, compared to 15.4% in the intubation group. From the LT group, 10.8% survived to hospital discharge, and only 8.1% in the intubation group. The proportion... read more

A Nightmare Airway with Rob Bryant

A Nightmare Airway with Rob Bryant

In terms of airway management, cricothyrotomy is one of the most advanced airway procedures an ED physician will perform. It is a last resort procedure when a patient is not able to be ventilated/oxygenated and/or intubated.... read more

Prevention of VAP: Effects of a National multi-modal Approach in Spain

Prevention of VAP: Effects of a National multi-modal Approach in Spain

This large, prospective multi-centre study demonstrates that a national approach (incorporating a care bundle, education cascade, and clinical governance process) for Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention is feasible... read more