Meconium aspirator as bloody airway suction aid
I got an email from my mate in Utah, Dr Rob Bryant who shared this great training video
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Minh
Used a meconium aspirator on a bloody airway during CPR tonight and remembered this video I made last year.
The glide scope was useless, but with DL, and a meconium aspirator attached to wall suction and an 8.0 ETT I had 1st pass success without interrupting compressions.
Thought you might enjoy the comparison of simulated ETT secretion transmission before and after bougie tube exchange
It was great to virtually hangout with you last week, hope to share a beer with you in person sometime!
Awesome last podcast with Weingart! Keep up the FOAMtastic work
Rob
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thanks Rob! Of course attribution to the original concept for this to Dr Scott WEingart!
I once had a patient in cardiac arrest due to pulmonary edema that I ended up using a meconium aspirator attached to an ET tube. The patient looked like someone had made a cappuccino (with three-thirds foam as opposed to the traditional 1/3 foam, 1/3 mild, 1/3 espresso (don’t get me started on what Starbucks calls a cappuccino)).
The pt was supine with a mound of the whitest foam capping the mouth. It worked great and within a minute or so of suctioning and ventilating, pulses returned and CPR was stopped. The meconium aspirator was not my first choice, but I was getting nowhere with the usual suction devices. They say necessity is the mother of invention…
I did wonder about the possibility of suctioning off surfactant but I talked with the patient a week later and the patient was right as rain.