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Difficult airway management from Emergency Department till Intensive Care Unit

We report a case of “can ventilate but can’t intubate” situation which was successfully managed in the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit by the use of ProSeal laryngeal mask airway and Frova Intubating Introducer as bridging rescue devices. Use of appropriate technique while strictly foll...

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Autores principales: Pradhan, Debasis, Bhattacharyya, Prithwis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26430345
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.164810
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description We report a case of “can ventilate but can’t intubate” situation which was successfully managed in the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit by the use of ProSeal laryngeal mask airway and Frova Intubating Introducer as bridging rescue devices. Use of appropriate technique while strictly following the difficult airway algorithm is the mainstay of airway management in unanticipated difficult airway situations. Although the multiple airway devices were used but each step took not more than 2 min and “don’t struggle, skip to the next step principle” was followed. With the availability of many advanced airway management tools, the intensivists should have a training and experience along with preparedness in order to perform such lifesaving airway managements.
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spelling pubmed-45782032015-10-01 Difficult airway management from Emergency Department till Intensive Care Unit Pradhan, Debasis Bhattacharyya, Prithwis Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report We report a case of “can ventilate but can’t intubate” situation which was successfully managed in the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit by the use of ProSeal laryngeal mask airway and Frova Intubating Introducer as bridging rescue devices. Use of appropriate technique while strictly following the difficult airway algorithm is the mainstay of airway management in unanticipated difficult airway situations. Although the multiple airway devices were used but each step took not more than 2 min and “don’t struggle, skip to the next step principle” was followed. With the availability of many advanced airway management tools, the intensivists should have a training and experience along with preparedness in order to perform such lifesaving airway managements. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4578203/ /pubmed/26430345 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-5229.164810 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms
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