The difficult airway: tools and techniques for acute management: proven alternatives are needed when conventional intubation fails.

The difficult airway: tools and techniques for acute management: proven alternatives are needed when conventional intubation fails.

Blanda M

Journal of Critical Illness

2000

2000-07

The ability to secure a patient's airway is crucial in the management of acutely life-threatening illnesses and injuries. Since a number of factors can make routine endotracheal intubation difficult or impossible, critical care clinicians must be prepared with competence in a variety of airway management techniques. Noninvasive alternative techniques and tools include digital intubation, directional tubes, lighted stylets, esophageal-tracheal tubes, and the laryngeal mask airway. Invasive methods include translaryngeal guided intubation (retrograde intubation), percutaneous transtracheal ventilation, and surgical cricothyrotomy.

Airway Obstruction; Intubation – Methods

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