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Physician-authored summaries on the latest research on airway management, editorials on airway management, and perspectives on airway management - drawn from the top medical journals.
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Is Prehospital Advanced Airway Management Harmful for Cardiac Arrest Patients? Free
- January 15, 2013
- Daniel J. Pallin, MD, MPH
- Emergency Medicine
Outcomes were better with bag-valve-mask ventilation than with advanced airway management.- Reviewing:
- Hasegawa K et al., JAMA 2013 Jan 16; 309:257.
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Airway Management in Postoperative Carotid Endarterectomy Patients
- February 5, 2010
- Emily L. Brown, MD, and Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
This large retrospective study describes airway management strategies in patients who develop neck hematoma.- Reviewing:
- Shakespeare WA et al., Anesth Analg 2010 Feb; 110:588.
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Skill Retention After Simulated Difficult Airway Training
Simulator training improves performance of standard but infrequently used rescue techniques.- Reviewing:
- Kuduvalli PM et al., Anaesthesia 2008 Apr; 63:364.
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Securing an Airway When You Can’t Reach the Patient
- August 3, 2007
- Kristi L. Koenig, MD, FACEP
- Emergency Medicine
A Laryngeal Mask Airway is faster than a Combitube or endotracheal tube, but only slightly.- Reviewing:
- Hoyle JD Jr et al., Prehosp Emerg Care 2007 Jul-Sep; 11:330-6.
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The Macintosh Laryngoscope vs. the New Airtraq Device
- November 3, 2006
- Aaron E. Bair, MD, FAAEM, FACEP
- Emergency Medicine
This new single-use device shows promise for intubation.- Reviewing:
- Maharaj CH et al., Anaesthesia 2006 Nov; 61:1093-9.
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EM Resident Airway Skills: Do They Get Better with Time?
- January 4, 2006
- Richard D. Zane, MD, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
Airway management is an integral skill for emergency physicians and an important component of any emergency medicine residency. These authors assessed intubation success rates for . . .- Reviewing:
- Sagarin MJ et al., Ann Emerg Med 2005 Oct; 46:328-36.
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Intubation in the Lateral Position: Tube or LMA?
- December 21, 2005
- Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FACEP, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
Certain emergency circumstances, such as entrapment or impalement with a weapon, require that intubation be conducted with the patient in the lateral position, but little . . .- Reviewing:
- McCaul CL et al., Anesth Analg 2005 Oct; 101:1221-5.
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Emergency Airway Management: Who Owns the Airway?
- April 28, 2004
- Richard D. Zane, MD
- Emergency Medicine
Many critical procedures performed by emergency physicians also fall into the domain of other specialties, which often leads to stimulating discussions about who is responsible . . .- Reviewing:
- Kovacs G et al., Can J Anaesth 2004 Feb; 51:174-80.
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Airway Management While Wearing PPE: Will It Work?
- March 17, 2004
- Richard D. Zane, MD
- Emergency Medicine
In most airway management literature, the difficult airway is described in the context of the patient, not the provider. These authors in Israel assessed whether . . .- Reviewing:
- Flaishon R et al., Anesthesiology 2004 Feb; 100:260-6.
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New Airway Management Device Offers Nothing New
- August 30, 2001
- RJ Vissers
- Emergency Medicine
The Airway Management Device (AMD) is similar to the laryngeal mask airway (LMA), but it has 2 silicone cuffs: The distal is inserted and inflated . . .- Reviewing:
- Cook TM et al., Anaesthesia 2001 Jul; 56:
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Airway Management: Whose Job?
- September 1, 1997
- RM Walls
- Emergency Medicine
Controversy continues over who in the ED is responsible for airway management: both anesthesiologists and emergency physicians claim this domain as their own.- Reviewing:
- Nayyar P and Lisbon A., Anesth Analg 1997 Jul; 85:
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The Self-Pressurized Air-Q and LMA Unique Devices Perform Comparably in Children
- September 21, 2012
- Cheryl Lynn Horton, MD, and Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
The two devices had similar success rates, insertion times, and complication rates.- Reviewing:
- Jagannathan N et al., Anaesthesia 2012 Sep; 67:973.
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Intubation of Critically Ill Patients in Scotland
- May 25, 2012
- Cheryl Lynn Horton, MD, and Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
Although nearly all intubations were successful, many patients experienced postintubation hypoxia and hypotension.- Reviewing:
- Simpson GD et al., Br J Anaesth 2012 May; 108:792.
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LMA Supreme Outperforms the i-gel for Novices
- April 6, 2012
- Cheryl Lynn Horton, MD, and Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
Insertion times were comparable with the two supraglottic airway devices, but the LMA Supreme had better operating characteristics.- Reviewing:
- Ragazzi R et al., Anaesthesia 2012 Apr; 67:384.
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The i-gel LMA Is Similar to Ambu AuraOnce LMA for Pediatric Intubations
- July 8, 2011
- Cheryl Lynn Horton, MD, and Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
The devices performed similarly in all weight groups, but the i-gel often required taping to hold it in place.- Reviewing:
- Theiler LG et al., Anesthesiology 2011 Jul; 115:102.
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Achieving Competence in Basic and Advanced Airway Techniques
- June 4, 2010
- Emily L. Brown, MD, and Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
For previously untrained interns, 25 to 30 attempts at bag-mask ventilation and intubation were needed to achieve even modest competency.- Reviewing:
- Komatsu R et al., Anesthesiology 2010 Jun; 112:1525.
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Early Intubation in Trauma Patients Is Safe and Effective
- February 13, 2009
- John A. Marx, MD, FAAEM, FACEP
- Emergency Medicine
The success rate of orotracheal intubation within three attempts was 98.9% in this retrospective study of acute airway management at a single level I trauma center.- Reviewing:
- Sise MJ et al., J Trauma 2009 Jan; 66:32.
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Emergency Cricothyrotomy: Comparing Four Methods
- October 24, 2008
- Aaron E. Bair, MD, MSc, FAAEM, FACEP
- Emergency Medicine
Pick a method and practice it!- Reviewing:
- Dimitriadis JC and Paoloni R., Anaesthesia 2008 Nov; 63:1204.
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Effect of Nasopharyngeal Oxygen Insufflation on Time-to-Hypoxia
- July 14, 2006
- Aaron E. Bair, MD, FAAEM, FACEP
- Emergency Medicine
The diffusion of oxygen can help prevent desaturation, even after induction of apnea.- Reviewing:
- Taha SK et al., Anaesthesia 2006 May; 61:427-30.
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Failed Airway Management: What Have We Learned?
- August 10, 2005
- Ron M. Walls, MD, FRCPC, FACEP, FAAEM
- Emergency Medicine
Airway failure with death or hypoxic brain injury (HBI) is the leading cause of medical malpractice losses for anesthesiologists. In 1993, the American Society of . . .- Reviewing:
- Peterson GN et al., Anesthesiology 2005 Jul; 103:33-9.
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