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Originally posted in my Facebook community page #TBayAirBasedRounds
More to add regarding bougie for this too
Right paraglossal straight blade
VL but minimize hyperangulated approach and hyperangulated styletting/bougie
Scope via SGA
Bougie via rigid suction (HT @jducanto see below) or VL/IL channel or CMAC left side channel
Surgical is your last resort (actually ECMO is?)
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 and post-intubation checks and briefing/debriefing tools. In addition, a quick reference teaching tool is included describing set-up, response to desaturation, response to challenges for intubation are also included.
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 “VomiQuin”) from the airwayNatic @jducanto.
Follow the twitter links for the insanity
Should you GOOSE the tube, don’t lose it, USE it!
Yen Chow and Jorge Cabrera [Updated Sept 21, 2015]
A cardiac arrest has been called on the floor and you happen to arrive before the crash cart. CPR is in progress and mask ventilation is being performed with an oral airway. A lot of suctioning is required for vomit in the airway. There is difficulty ventilating despite optimizing position, two person bag-valve-mask ventilation, additional nasal airways and maximal jaw thrust. There is limited access to the head of the bed in the patient’s room. As an airway clinician on the code blue team you carry a bougie and a cuffed 6.0 endotracheal tube with you. Intubation and extraglottic airway equipment still has not arrived. Pulling out your bougie and tube, you take out the patient’s dentures and use the oral airway as a bite block. You find the epiglottis with your middle and index fingers inserted into the mouth and guide the bougie into the glottic opening feeling tracheal ticks and hold-up to confirm. The tube slides over the bougie. Successful ventilation occurs without chest compressions missing a beat and the code continues.