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Risky Business – Weighing Things Up

Originally posted on The Collective:
The excellent Dr Paul Bailey returns to provide more practical insights from the bit of his work that involves coordination of international medical retrieval. This is the second in (we hope) a recurring series which started here.  Greetings everyone, it’s a pleasure to be back for the long awaited second…

Cricoid pressure in new DAS (Difficult Airway Society) Guidelines: still on?

MEDEST Background story: This is the post I wrote about the DAS April 2015 draft on intubation Guidelines: DAS (Difficult Airway Society) released a draft of its intubating Guidelines for evaluation and comment before definitive update. Previuos 2007 Guidelines are available here DAS Intubation Guidelines This is the link to download the Update (April 2015)Continue reading “Cricoid pressure in new DAS (Difficult Airway Society) Guidelines: still on?”

VL tecnique in suspect intracranial bleeding

MEDEST 62 yrs old male found unconscious GCS 6 (E1,V1, P4). Sign of vomiting and inhalation. Profoundly hypoxic, hypertensive (BP 200 over 110). Pupils were miotic with anisocoria dx>sx. The team, after aspiration of gastric material from the airway, decided for airway control, before transport. The patient is overweight with a “taurine” neck so VLContinue reading “VL tecnique in suspect intracranial bleeding”