Airway Management with Blunt Anterior Neck Trauma
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…
Airway Management of an Unconscious Patient Who Is Trapped Inside the Vehicle Following a Motor Vehicle Collision
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…
Airway Management of a Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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…
Preparation for Awake Intubation
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…
Flexible Bronchoscopic Intubation
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…
Cricothyrotomy
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…
Rigid Fiberoptic and Video-Laryngoscopes
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…
Direct Laryngoscopy
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…
Experiments When Each Subject Receives More Than One Treatment
Experiments When Each Subject Receives More Than One Treatment: Introduction Print Section Listen The procedures for testing hypotheses discussed in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 apply to experiments in which…
Extraglottic Devices for Ventilation and Oxygenation
CASE PRESENTATION Print Section Listen A 57-year-old male was admitted for laparoscopic appendectomy for acute appendicitis. He was otherwise healthy, apart from essential hypertension, for which he took hydrochlorothiazide. He…
