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, 7th ed.

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

Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine: Roberts & Hedges, 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

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

Pediatric Airway

• 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/

See Also

• GEMC: Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum (Main)