CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen On a stormy night in the countryside, a 72-year-old male driver falls asleep at the wheel and strays into on-coming traffic. A transport truck trying…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 67-year-old woman presents to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance with a 3-hour history of increasing dyspnea associated with chest pain. She has a…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 25-year-old male drives into an unseen wire while he is snowmobiling. The wire strikes his anterior neck and throws him from his snowmobile. Paramedics…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen You are the emergency physician on duty for aeromedical transport calls. You are called to the scene of a motor vehicle collision in a remote…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen An Advanced Life-Support Emergency Services unit brought a 35-year-old male into the emergency department (ED) “backboarded and collared.” The patient was an unrestrained driver who…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Case: A 60-year-old female with carcinoma of the colon is scheduled for laparoscopic colon resection. She has hypertension, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and is morbidly obese…
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 65-year-old male with carcinoma of the colon presents for colon resection. He weighs 120 kg and is 157 cm tall (BMI 48 kg·m−2). He…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In 1799, as George Washington lay dying of life threatening upper airway obstruction, one of his physicians, Elisha Cullen Dick, argued against further bloodletting and for…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Why Were Rigid and Semirigid Fiberoptic- and Video-Laryngoscopes Developed? Macewan originally performed endotracheal intubation with his fingers.1 In 1913 Janeway used a speculum very similar to…
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND Print Section Listen In this day and age with video-laryngoscopy (VL) rapidly becoming the standard of care for orotracheal intubation (OTI) one might rightly ask if there…
