GEMC:Airway Procedures

General

This the main page for the Global Emergency Medicine Curriculum Project's Airway Procedures section. For point of care treatment information see the Airway/Resus Category Page.

Written Resources

Journal Articles

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Book Chapters

Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 7th ed.

Chapter 1 Airway
Chapter 2 Mechanical Ventilation and Noninvasive Ventilatory Support

Roberts & Hedges: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine, 5th ed.

Chapter 2 Devices for Assessing Oxygenation and Ventilation
Chapter 3 Basic Airway Management and Decision-Making
Chapter 4 Tracheal Intubation
Chapter 5 Pharmacologic Adjuncts to Intubation
Chapter 6 Cricothyrotomy and Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
Chapter 7 Tracheostomy Care
Chapter 8 Mechanical Ventilation

Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, 7th ed.

Chapter 28 Noninvasive Airway Management
Chapter 29 Pediatric Airway Management
Chapter 30 Tracheal Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
Chapter 31 Surgical Airway Management

Reichman & Simon: Emergency Medicine Procedures, 2nd ed.

Chapter 01 Essential Anatomy of the Airway
Chapter 02 Basic Airway Management
Chapter 03 Pharmacologic Adjuncts to Intubation
Chapter 04 Rapid Sequence Induction
Chapter 05 Orotracheal Intubation
Chapter 06 Digital (Tactile) Orotracheal Intubation
Chapter 07 Bullard Laryngoscope Intubation
Chapter 08 Lighted Stylet Intubation
Chapter 09 Esophageal-Tracheal Combitube Intubation
Chapter 10 Fiberoptic Endoscopic Intubation
Chapter 11 Nasotracheal Intubation
Chapter 12 Retrograde Guidewire Intubation
Chapter 13 Percutaneous Transtracheal Jet Ventilation
Chapter 14 Cricothyroidotomy
Chapter 15 Tracheostomy
Chapter 16 Tracheostomy Care
Chapter 17 Laryngeal Mask Airways

Blog Articles

Shock Trauma Center Failed Airway Algorithm: http://emcrit.org/blogpost/shock-trauma-center-failed-airway-algorithm/

Slide Sets

Airway Management with Rich Levitan sides (talk in Podcasts) http://emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/levitan-handout.pdf

Audiovisual

Podcasts

Airway Management with Rich Levitan: http://emcrit.org/podcasts/rich-levitan-airway-lecture/
Scott Weingart: EMCrit Intubation Checklist: http://emcrit.org/podcasts/emcrit-intubation-checklist/
Scott Weingart: Has Video Laryngoscopy Killed the Direct Laryngoscope?: http://emcrit.org/podcasts/has-video-laryngoscopy-killed-the-dl-star/
Scott Weingart: The Laryngoscope as a Weapon of Death http://freeemergencytalks.net/2011/09/scott-weingart-the-laryngoscope-as-a-weapon-of-death/
Minh Le Cong Discusses Three Examples of Airway Management Gone Bad: http://emcrit.org/misc/three-airway-disasters/
Minh Le Cong: Trauma Airway in Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine http://freeemergencytalks.net/2012/07/ron-walls-usa-laryngoscopy-did-you-miss-the-revolution/
Reuben Strayer: Contemporary Strategies in Airway Management http://freeemergencytalks.net/2012/07/reuben-strayer-usa-contemporary-strategies-in-airway-management/
Ron Walls: Laryngoscopy – Did You Miss the Revolution? http://freeemergencytalks.net/2012/07/ron-walls-usa-laryngoscopy-did-you-miss-the-revolution/
Ken Butler: Current Devices in Airway Management http://freeemergencytalks.net/2011/12/kenneth-butler-maryland-current-devices-in-airway-management/
Peter DeBlieux: Ten Ways to Lose an Airway http://freeemergencytalks.net/2010/08/peter-deblieux-ten-ways-to-lose-an-airway/
Rob Vissers: The Difficult Airway http://freeemergencytalks.net/2010/05/rob-vissers-the-difficult-airway/

Video

Techniques for Oral Intubation: Direct Laryngoscopy: http://www.airwaycam.com/direct-laryngoscopy.html
How to Ventilate - http://vimeo.com/34883844 (11min)
How to Intubate - http://littlemedic.org/how-to-laryngoscopy-and-intubation-by-scott-weingart/ (15min)
Using the Bougie - http://hqmeded.com/video/1085978 (5min)
Difficult Bougie - http://hqmeded.com/video/40879557 (13min)
Using the Glidescope(r) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jb2tbqQ6VQ (3min)
More Glidescope(r) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvpUI7vOpDw (6min)
Difficult Video Laryngoscopy - http://prehospitalmed.com/2013/05/14/learning-from-failed-intubations-a-study-of-3-videos/ (30min)
Bougie Cricothyroidotomy - http://www.emrap.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2274:EMRAPTV94-Cric-Bougie (7min)

Pediatric Airway

Pediatric Airway: Differences from Adults: http://lifeinthefastlane.com/education/ccc/paediatric-airway/
Pediatric Airway 101: http://www.pemed.org/blog/2012/3/3/pediatric-airway-101.html
Pediatric Airway: The Advanced Course: http://www.pemed.org/blog/2012/4/15/pediatric-airway-the-advanced-course.html
Ghazala Sharieff: Pitfalls in Pediatric Airway Management http://freeemergencytalks.net/2010/09/ghazala-sharieff-pitfalls-in-pediatric-airway-management/

Paediatric Intubation - http://emupdates.com/2011/05/24/12-minute-screencast-pediatric-airway-for-emergency-physicians-who-are-not-also-pediatricians/ (12min)