2014 Annual Meeting

September 09 - 14, 2014

S221

Cannot Ventilate, Cannot Intubate - Next Step?

This is a Ticketed Session

This course will discuss in detail emergency cricothyroidotomy and emergency tracheotomy, and will review options to facilitate difficult intubation and other non-surgical means of airway establishment for adults and children.

1. Formulate a sequence of non-surgical airway interventions correlated with the status of the patient’s declining airway;
2. Understand the applications and limitations of cricothyroidotomy and tracheotomy in the airway emergency patient; and
3. Relate the level of severity of the patient’s airway status to the changes in their physical findings as the airway deteriorates and the crisis becomes more acute.