GEMC:Airway Procedures

General

This the main page for the Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum Project's Airway Procedures section. For point of care treatment information see the Airway/Resus Category Page.

Written Resources

Journal Articles

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Book Chapters

Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 7th ed.

• Chapter 1 Airway
• Chapter 2 Mechanical Ventilation and Noninvasive Ventilatory Support

Roberts & Hedges: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, 5th ed.

• Chapter 2 Devices for Assessing Oxygenation and Ventilation
• Chapter 3 Basic Airway Management and Decision-Making
• Chapter 4 Tracheal Intubation
• Chapter 5 Pharmacologic Adjuncts to Intubation
• Chapter 6 Cricothyrotomy and Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
• Chapter 7 Tracheostomy Care
• Chapter 8 Mechanical Ventilation

Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, 7th ed.

• Chapter 28 Noninvasive Airway Management
• Chapter 29 Pediatric Airway Management
• Chapter 30 Tracheal Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
• Chapter 31 Surgical Airway Management

Reichman & Simon: Emergency Medicine Procedures, 2nd ed.

• Chapter 01 Essential Anatomy of the Airway
• Chapter 02 Basic Airway Management
• Chapter 03 Pharmacologic Adjuncts to Intubation
• Chapter 04 Rapid Sequence Induction
• Chapter 05 Orotracheal Intubation
• Chapter 06 Digital (Tactile) Orotracheal Intubation
• Chapter 07 Bullard Laryngoscope Intubation
• Chapter 08 Lighted Stylet Intubation
• Chapter 09 Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube Intubation
• Chapter 10 Fiberoptic Endoscopic Intubation
• Chapter 11 Nasotracheal Intubation
• Chapter 12 Retrograde Guidewire Intubation
• Chapter 13 Percutaneous Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
• Chapter 14 Cricothyroidotomy
• Chapter 15 Tracheostomy
• Chapter 16 Tracheostomy Care
• Chapter 17 Laryngeal Mask Airways

Blog Articles

• Shock Trauma Center Failed Airway Algorithm: http://emcrit.org/blogpost/shock-trauma-center-failed-airway-algorithm/

Slide Sets

• Airway Management with Rich Levitan sides (talk in Podcasts) http://emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/levitan-handout.pdf

Audiovisual

Podcasts

• Airway Management with Rich Levitan: http://emcrit.org/podcasts/rich-levitan-airway-lecture/
• Scott Weingart: EMCrit Intubation Checklist: http://emcrit.org/podcasts/emcrit-intubation-checklist/
• Scott Weingart: Has Video Laryngoscopy Killed the Direct Laryngoscope?: http://emcrit.org/podcasts/has-video-laryngoscopy-killed-the-dl-star/
• Scott Weingart: The Laryngoscope as a Weapon of Death http://freeemergencytalks.net/2011/09/scott-weingart-the-laryngoscope-as-a-weapon-of-death/
• Minh Le Cong Discusses Three Examples of Airway Management Gone Bad: http://emcrit.org/misc/three-airway-disasters/
• Minh Le Cong: Trauma Airway in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine http://freeemergencytalks.net/2012/07/ron-walls-usa-laryngoscopy-did-you-miss-the-revolution/
• Reuben Strayer: Contemporary Strategies in Airway Management http://freeemergencytalks.net/2012/07/reuben-strayer-usa-contemporary-strategies-in-airway-management/
• Ron Walls: Laryngoscopy – Did You Miss the Revolution? http://freeemergencytalks.net/2012/07/ron-walls-usa-laryngoscopy-did-you-miss-the-revolution/
• Ken Butler: Current Devices in Airway Management http://freeemergencytalks.net/2011/12/kenneth-butler-maryland-current-devices-in-airway-management/
• Peter DeBlieux: Ten Ways to Lose an Airway http://freeemergencytalks.net/2010/08/peter-deblieux-ten-ways-to-lose-an-airway/
• Rob Vissers: The Difficult Airway http://freeemergencytalks.net/2010/05/rob-vissers-the-difficult-airway/

Video

• Techniques for Oral Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy: http://www.airwaycam.com/direct-laryngoscopy.html
• How to Ventilate - http://vimeo.com/34883844 (11min)
• How to Intubate - http://littlemedic.org/how-to-laryngoscopy-and-intubation-by-scott-weingart/ (15min)
• Using the Bougie - http://hqmeded.com/video/1085978 (5min)
• Difficult Bougie - http://hqmeded.com/video/40879557 (13min)
• Using the Glidescope(r) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jb2tbqQ6VQ (3min)
• More Glidescope(r) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvpUI7vOpDw (6min)
• Difficult Video Laryngoscopy - http://prehospitalmed.com/2013/05/14/learning-from-failed-intubations-a-study-of-3-videos/ (30min)
• Bougie Cricothyroidotomy - http://www.emrap.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2274:EMRAPTV94-Cric-Bougie (7min)

Pediatric Airway

Podcasts

• Pediatric Airway: Differences from Adults: http://lifeinthefastlane.com/education/ccc/paediatric-airway/
• Pediatric Airway 101: http://www.pemed.org/blog/2012/3/3/pediatric-airway-101.html
• Pediatric Airway: The Advanced Course: http://www.pemed.org/blog/2012/4/15/pediatric-airway-the-advanced-course.html
• Ghazala Sharieff: Pitfalls in Pediatric Airway Management http://freeemergencytalks.net/2010/09/ghazala-sharieff-pitfalls-in-pediatric-airway-management/

Videos

• Paediatric Intubation - http://emupdates.com/2011/05/24/12-minute-screencast-pediatric-airway-for-emergency-physicians-who-are-not-also-pediatricians/ (12min)

See Also

• GEMC: Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum (Main)