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/