Category Archives: Online critical airway training

Enter the Airway BIOSIM

@jducanto @TBayEDguy @kovacsgj @drjdt2644 @TheNeurosim @ketaminh @KangarooBeach @mededgene Airway BIOSim pic.twitter.com/j85RpDVOUx — carmine della vella (@airwayGladiator) August 31, 2016 @jducanto @TBayEDguy @kovacsgj @mededgene @ketaminh @drjdt2644 @TheNeurosim @mededgene BIOsim pic.twitter.com/QhLrGSlkrQ — carmine della vella (@airwayGladiator) August 31, 2016

Emergency Cricothyrotomy Performed by Surgical Airway–naive Medical Personnel

Perioperative Medicine | August 2016 Emergency Cricothyrotomy Performed by Surgical Airway–naive Medical Personnel: A Randomized Crossover Study in Cadavers Comparing Three Commonly Used Techniques Frédéric Heymans, M.D.; Georg Feigl, M.D.; Stephan Graber, M.D.; Delphine S. Courvoisier, Ph.D.; Kerstin M. Weber, M.D.; Pavel Dulguerov, M.D. Success rates (P = 0.025) Surgical cricothyrotomy 95%, QuickTrach 55% MelkerContinue reading “Emergency Cricothyrotomy Performed by Surgical Airway–naive Medical Personnel”

Vortex Reloaded 2016

Introduction to the Vortexhttps://t.co/wXnn3pfJYDhttps://t.co/aiFot7kc66@BJAJournals #VortexReloaded — Nicholas Chrimes (@NicholasChrimes) July 21, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js V2 is here in @BJAJournals https://t.co/wXnn3pfJYDhttps://t.co/E727PQ3b8r#VortexReloaded pic.twitter.com/WHCe1Usydz — Nicholas Chrimes (@NicholasChrimes) July 21, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

Filling the Gap — Songs or Stories

Everyone’s got a theory about what to do in the CICO emergency. Unless the CICO situation is all about kids. Andrew Weatherall goes through a recent review on this arising from the kids’ hospital in Melbourne. If you’ve spent a bit of time online you would have noticed a phenomenon that isn’t particular to medicalContinue reading “Filling the Gap — Songs or Stories”

Tim and Jim in Dublin

Full credit for this goes to Dr James DuCanto, airway geek and innovator from Milwaukee, USA. It’s been my great privilege (and crazy pleasure) to facilitate with Jim at smacc airway workshops in Chicago and Dublin, using the SALAD sim (suction assisted laryngoscopic airway decontamination). This is a great setup to teach techniques to manage… viaContinue reading “Tim and Jim in Dublin”

#SMACCAirway in Dublin

St.Emlyn's – Meducation in Virchester #FOAMed In its 4th iteration at SMACC this year, the airway workshop was held twice – in the morning and afternoon. It was essentially a masterclass in what is being developed and implemented regarding airway simulation and skill around the world. Each workshop was divided into four sessions –… via #smaccAIRWAYContinue reading “#SMACCAirway in Dublin”

CICO Trainer for under $5 — KI Doc

The dreaded ‘cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate’ scenario is one which most clinicians will never encounter. In elective anaesthesia, the CICO rate has been described by Cook & Macdougall as 1/5000 in elective cases, proceeding to emergency surgical airway in 1/50,000 (a more recent study from Japan describes CICO as 1/32,000 – either way, a rareContinue reading “CICO Trainer for under $5 — KI Doc”

Still Meandering Towards Apneic Oxygenation — Emergency Medicine Literature of Note

The use of apneic oxygenation – so-called NODESAT – has been gaining rapidly in popularity. Curiously enough, however, its continued promotion occurs in the absence of high-quality evidence for benefit.This most recent study is a prospective, observational evaluation of two years’ worth of intubation procedural outcomes. Patients receiving passive oxygenation during intubation were compared with… viaContinue reading “Still Meandering Towards Apneic Oxygenation — Emergency Medicine Literature of Note”