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.
Book Chapters - Not Open Access
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 http://www.mdconsult.com/books/page.do?eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4557-0606-8..00003-3&isbn=978-1-4557-0606-8&uniqId=421070299-2#4-u1.0-B978-1-4557-0606-8..00003-3
- 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 http://www.accessemergencymedicine.com/content.aspx?aid=6358328
- 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
Journal Articles - Open Access
- Kristensen MS, Teok WHL. Anesthesiology News Guide to Airway Management The Ultrasound Probe in the Hands of the Anesthesiologist: A Powerful New Tool for Airway Management http://www.anesthesiologynews.com//download/Ultrasound_ANGAM2013_WM.pdf (accessed August 2013)
- Jagannathan NS, Fiadjoe JE. Anesthesiology News Guide to Airway Management Supraglottic Airways for Pediatric Patients: An Overview. http://www.anesthesiologynews.com//download/PediatricSGA_ANGAM2013_WM.pdf (accessed August 2013)
Blogs and Websites
- Shock Trauma Center Failed Airway Algorithm http://emcrit.org/blogpost/shock-trauma-center-failed-airway-algorithm/
Slide Sets
- Airway Management with Rich Levitan (talk is in Podcasts) http://emcrit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/levitan-handout.pdf
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. 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/
Videos
- 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
Book Chapters - Not Open Access
Journal Articles - Open Access
Blogs & Websites
Podcasts
- 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/
Videos
- Paediatric Intubation http://emupdates.com/2011/05/24/12-minute-screencast-pediatric-airway-for-emergency-physicians-who-are-not-also-pediatricians/ (12min)