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.

Book Chapters - Not Open Access

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 http://www.mdconsult.com/books/page.do?eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4557-0606-8..00003-3&isbn=978-1-4557-0606-8&uniqId=421070299-2#4-u1.0-B978-1-4557-0606-8..00003-3
• 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 http://www.accessemergencymedicine.com/content.aspx?aid=6358328
• 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

Journal Articles - Open Access

• Kristensen MS, Teok WHL. Anesthesiology News Guide to Airway Management The Ultrasound Probe in the Hands of the Anesthesiologist: A Powerful New Tool for Airway Management http://www.anesthesiologynews.com//download/Ultrasound_ANGAM2013_WM.pdf (accessed August 2013)
• Jagannathan NS, Fiadjoe JE. Anesthesiology News Guide to Airway Management Supraglottic Airways for Pediatric Patients: An Overview. http://www.anesthesiologynews.com//download/PediatricSGA_ANGAM2013_WM.pdf (accessed August 2013)

Blogs and Websites

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

Slide Sets

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

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. 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/

Videos

• 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

Journal Articles - Open Access

• Direct Laryngoscopy vs GlideScope

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)