Always Use a Vertical Incision when Performing a Cricothyroidotomy
Always Use a Vertical Incision when Performing a Cricothyroidotomy Brandon R. Bruns MD Heidi L. Frankel MD No situation in medicine is as stressful as the management of a patient…
Have a Low Threshold for Contacting the Most Experienced Available Airway Professional in Patients with Diseases Associated with Difficult Airways
Have a Low Threshold for Contacting the Most Experienced Available Airway Professional in Patients with Diseases Associated with Difficult Airways Lauren C. Berkow MD Patients in the intensive care unit…
Do not use The Presence of End-Tidal CO2 to Rule Out Esophageal Intubation
Do not use The Presence of End-Tidal CO2 to Rule Out Esophageal Intubation Patricia M. Veloso MD Scenario You are called to emergently intubate an obese woman for increasing respiratory…
Use Cricoid Pressure when Performing Rapid Sequence Intubation or Bag-Mask Ventilation
Use Cricoid Pressure when Performing Rapid Sequence Intubation or Bag-Mask Ventilation Rahul G. Baijal MD Cricoid pressure, first described by Sellick in 1961, is used to occlude the upper esophagus…
Preoxygenate Patients Before Intubation
Preoxygenate Patients Before Intubation Rahul G. Baijal MD The purpose of preoxygenating a patient before induction of general anesthesia and paralysis is to provide maximum time that a patient can…
Know How to Use the Licox System to Measure Brain Tissue Oxygenation
Know How to Use the Licox System to Measure Brain Tissue Oxygenation Aaron Bransky MD Heidi L. Frankel MD Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability…
Consider Placing an Intracranial Pressure Monitor in Patients with Glasgow Coma Scale ≤8
Consider Placing an Intracranial Pressure Monitor in Patients with Glasgow Coma Scale ≤8 Jose I. Suarez MD Neuronal injury is usually classified as primary or secondary. Primary injury refers to…
Remember that Pulse Oximetry is Inaccurate at Lower Saturation Levels
Remember that Pulse Oximetry is Inaccurate at Lower Saturation Levels Nirav G. Shah MD Pulse oximetry is a noninvasive method to measure arterial hemoglobin saturation. The probe for the pulse…
Know the Conditions that Cause an Inaccurate Pulse Oximetry Reading
Know the Conditions that Cause an Inaccurate Pulse Oximetry Reading Eliahu S. Feen MD Jose I. Suarez MD Basic Principles Pulse oximetry is the technique of measuring arterial blood oxygenation…
Treat Any Milky Fluid Coming From the Chest or Abdomen as Chylous Until Proven Otherwise
Treat Any Milky Fluid Coming From the Chest or Abdomen as Chylous Until Proven Otherwise D. Joshua Mancini MD Rajan Gupta MD The anatomy of the thoracic duct can be…
