Needle wins surgical airway debate! #GAMC2016

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Plan D

needle
or
scalpel
for
front of neck

what do you think!

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

Airway debate – front of neck access – needle or scalpel? – live! #GAMC2016 https://t.co/Ks8dkBMQHH

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

@strachanjamie please can I have both – used combined kit in anger – used to needle like perc trac but when it doesnt work.. scalpel

— richard ramsaran (@richramsaran) June 8, 2016

 

Room full of people with their hands on their necks practising a laryngeal handshake… #GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

Here’s @emcrit on identifying the cricothyroid membranehttps://t.co/2lwtteJ4Ex#SMACCdub #GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

Is needle technique too complicated and too difficult for the first time user? Ravi Bagrath thinks so.#GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

Don’t be an airway wanker-1st response CICO-O’s Up Nose, Sit ’em Up, Pull mandible, then BVM PEEP upright, then cut. pic.twitter.com/GBGaSTudWP

— Richard Levitan (@airwaycam) November 12, 2015

 

Plan D critics don’t like having a technique selected for them says Bhav Patel#GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

Vortex model/approach/algorithm/cognitive aid doesn’t specify needle or scalpel. In fact all guidelines quoted say use either…#GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

Bhav Patel making good point-many UK airway courses teaching needle techniques a year on from DAS guidelines (including this one!)#GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

 

@strachanjamie we stopped teaching needle cric in favour of surgical a while ago on our critical care airway course https://t.co/H8616UMSCd

— Peter Sherren (@PBSherren) June 8, 2016

 

He was good wasn’t he! https://t.co/hVNn5HPIBn

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016

QR code voting needle or scalpel (using google forms) effective, swing towards needle after the debate#GAMC2016

— Jamie Strachan (@strachanjamie) June 8, 2016