Airway Management

• Five Things to Keep in Mind When Treating an Asthmatic

  Image from Alan Levine This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Puja Gopal, MD Emergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoAAEM/RSA Publications Committee Member Asthmatic patients present along a broad spectrum of severity. There are those who present with mild wheezing, have complete resolution with a single neb treatment, and go home with […]
• Pre- and Post-Intubation Issues and Solutions

  Photo Credit: Borls Ott – Flickr This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. Author: Andrew V. Bokarius, MDEmergency Medicine ResidentUniversity of Chicago There are a number of issues that may come up prior to, during, and after successful intubation. Let’s take a look at a few common problems and possible solutions.  Pre-intubation: Can’t mask […]
• Save a Life: Know the Precious P’s of Rapid Sequence Intubation

  Photo: Wikimedia Commons Author: Valery Victoria Rivas Cuesta, MSVIMedical StudentUniversidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) School of Medicine An emergency physician’s failure to secure the airway can rapidly lead to death or disability. In the emergency setting, patients are assumed to have a full stomach and be at risk for aspiration. Often, rapid-sequence intubation (RSI) represents the preferred […]
• ACE-Inhibitor Induced Angioedema

  Author: Kaylinn Dokken, MSIIIMedical StudentWestern University of Health Sciences This post was peer reviewed.Click to learn more. ACE inhibitor (ACEi) induced angioedema is a potentially life-threatening complication of a very common class of medications, and is something every emergency physician should be prepared to manage. I personally witnessed three cases on a recent ICU rotation, […]
• Acute Severe Upper Airway Obstruction in Children

  Author: Shane R. Sergent, DO Upper airway obstruction (UAO) is potentially problematic in any population, but the incidence is more common in children given that they have small compliant airways. UAO in newborns is frequently from congenital abnormalities. In contrast, infants and young children have a spectrum of differentiated causes, the most common being acute […]
• Resident Journal Review: An Update on Airway Management in Emergency Medicine

  Originally Published: Common Sense, Nov/Dec 2012 Original Authors: Authors: Michael Allison, MD; Michael Scott, MD; Kami Hu, MD; David Bostick, MD; Daniel Boutsikaris, MD Edited by: Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM; Jay Khapde, MD FAAEM  There are few clinical skills as important to the emergency physician as emergency airway management. The field of airway management […]
• Board Review: The Pediatric Airway

  Originally Published: Modern Resident, Jun/Jul 2010 Original Author: Karen Serrano, MDUniversity of Wisconsin Dept. of Emergency Medicine Submitted by: Saadiyah Bilal, Publications Committee, Co-Chair  Managing the pediatric airway poses unique challenges for the emergency physician, requiring a good understanding of pediatric anatomy and familiarity with child-specific tools and approaches for emergency airway.Children are more susceptible […]

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