Prehospital airway management, the best articles of 2014
MEDEST118 REVIEW – RSI is the gold standard when we talk about intubating a spontaneously breathing patient but DSI is becoming a classic. And is recommended by Scott Weingart and Seth Trueger, not properly two “new kids on the block”
- Prehospital Rapid Sequence Intubation Improves Functional Outcome for Patients With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
- Delayed Sequence Intubation: A Prospective Observational Study
Caution! You are about to perform an invasive maneuver on a previously spontaneously breathing patient. So remember to carefully avoid desaturation and hyper-inflation!
This disclaimer should be written on the handle of every laryngoscope to remember two of the most frequent fault to avoid when managing the airways.
Apnoea and pre-oxygenation
Avoiding Circulatory complications during Intubation
Regarding Hemodynamic Responses During Orotracheal Intubation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Always rewarded as a nightmare for the emergency professional, surgical airway is most of the time a real no through road for the patient. So here is a complete guide on how to approach in the best way such a difficult skill.
Surgical Management Of the Failed Airway: A Guide To Percutaneous Cricothyrotomy
Does the aggressive management of the airways gets benefits on critically ill patients or a more conservative approach gives best results on clinical outcomes? Facts (few) and doubts (many) in this year literature.
- Airway management and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcome in the CARES registry
- Observational study of the success rates of intubation and failed intubation airway rescue techniques in 7256 attempted intubations of trauma patients by pre-hospital physicians
- Outcomes following prehospital airway management in severe traumatic brain injury