Airway Emergency Management

 Safe airway management
 Emergence Airway
 Airway assessment
 Difficult airway
 airway evaluation
 identification of the difficult airway
 assessment of other clinical factors
 selection of the likely most successful plan of
action
 reasonable alternative plan
 Have a precompiled plan of airway management
ready for implementation as clinical airway
difficulties are encountered
 develop a plan and a back-up plan
 Practice guidelines for management of the
difficult airway
 full stomach
 altered level of consciousness
 deteriorating cardiorespiratory
physiology
 abnormal or distorted upper airway
anatomy
 no time for pre-assessment or plan
 compromise or threats
 potentially difficult airway
 Patency ( airflow integrity )
 Protection against aspiration
 Assurance of oxygenation and ventilation

 Patency - relief of obstruction
 Protection from aspiration
 Hypoxic/ hypercapnic respiratory failure
 Airway access for pulmonary toilet, drug

delivery,therapeutic hyperventilation
 Shock
 Inspiratory stridor
 Snoring ( pharyngeal obstruction )
 Gurgling ( foreign matter/ secretions )
 Drooling ( epiglottitis )
 Hoarseness ( laryngeal edema/ vc paralysis)
 Paradoxical chest wall movement
 Tracheal tug
 Blood in upper airway
 Pus in upper airway
 persistant vomiting
 Loss of protective airway reflexes
 Central cyanosis
 Obtundation and diaphoresis
 rapid shallow respirations
 Accessory muscle use
 Retractions
 Abdominal paradox
 Difficult laryngoscopy
 Difficult bag-mask ventilation
 Lower airway difficulty

 Bag-Valve-Mask Ventilation
 Endotracheal Intubation
 Rapid Sequence Intubation
 Alternate techniques for the difficult airway
 “ Anybody ( almost ) can be oxygenated and
ventilated with a bag and a mask”
 The art of bagging should be mastered before

the art of intubation
 Manual ventilation skill with proper equipment

is a fundamental premise of advanced airway
management
 failure to recognize its importance
 forget to bag ( focussed on ETT )
 give up on bagging too early
 bag but don’t assess efficacy
 failure to assign one person to airway
management only
 Upper airway obstruction
 Lack of dentures
 Beard
 Midfacial smash
 facial burns, dressings, scarring
 poor lung mechanics
 degree of difficulty from zero to infinite
 zero = no external effort/internal device
 one person jaw thrust/ face seal
 oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal AW
 two person jaw thrust / face seal
both internal airway devices
 infinite -no patency despite maximal external
effort and full use of OP/NP
 Remove FB - Magill forceps
 Triple maneuver if c-spine clear
 Head tilt, jaw lift, mouth opening

 Nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal airway
 two-person, four-hand technique
 1200 prospectively studied patients
 of 84 patients predicted to have problem, only
22 (25%) actually had a problem
 of 43 actual difficult intubations incurred, only
22 (51%) were predicted
 history of past airway problems
 Careful physical assessment
 knowledge and experience to overcome the

"unpredicted difficult airway".
 learning practical airway management skills

in an environment that is not urgent,
stressful or life threatening
 Short thick neck
 Receding mandible
 Buck teeth
 Poor mandibular mobility/ limited jaw
opening
 Limited head and neck movement
( including trauma )
 Tumor, abscess or hematoma
 Burns
 Angioneurotic edema
 Blunt or penetrating trauma
 Rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis
 Congenital syndromes
 Neck surgery or radiation
 3 fingerbreadths mentum to hyoid
 3 fb chin to thyroid notch
 3 fb upper to lower incisors
 Head extension and neck flexion
 Mallimpadi classification
 Previous history of difficult intubation
 I - soft palate, uvula, tonsillar pillars
 99 % have grade I laryngoscopic view
 II - soft palate, uvula
 III - soft palate, base of uvula
 IV - soft palate not visible
 100% grade III or grade IV views
 Bag the patient
 Maximize neck flexion/ head extension
 Move tongue out of line of site
 Maximize mouth opening
 Look for landmarks and adjust blade
 BURP maneuver
 increasing lifting force
 consider Miller blade
 Bag the patient
 Awake or Asleep
 Oral or Nasal
 Laryngoscopy or Blind Intubation
 To Paralyze or Not
 DL without pharmacologic aids
 Awake Direct Laryngoscopy
 Awake Blind Nasal
 Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI)
 Fiberoptic
 Surgical Cricothyroidotomy
 the awake airway is the safest to manage
 spontaneous breathing is generally safer than
paralysis with PPV by mask
 have a low threshold to wake the patient up
and cancel the case
 call for help early
 Catecholamine release in response to laryngeal
manipulation
 Tachycardia, hypertension, raised ICP
 Attenuated by beta-blockers, fentanyl
 ICP rise possibly attenuated by lidocaine
 Midazolam and thiopental have no effect
 The near simultaneous administration of a
sedative-hypnotic agent and a neuromuscular
blocker in the presence of continuous cricoid
pressure to facilitate endotracheal
intubation and minimize risk of aspiration
 modifications are made depending upon the
clinical scenario
 Optimizes intubating conditions/ facilitates
visualization
 Increased rate of successful intubation
 Decreased time to intubation
 Decreased risk of aspiration
 Attenuation of hemodynamic and ICP changes
 Anticipated difficulty with endotracheal
intubation
 anatomic distortion
 Lack of operator skill or familiarity
 inability to preoxygenate
 Pre-intubation assessment
 Pre-oxygenate
 Prepare ( for the worst )
 Premedicate
 Paralyze
 Pressure on cricoid
 Place the tube
 Post intubation assessment
 100 % oxygen for 5 minutes
 4 conscious deep breaths of 100 % O2
 Fill FRC with reservoir of 100 % O2
 Allows 3 to 5 minutes of apnea
 Essential to allow avoidance of bagging
 If necessary bag with cricoid pressure
 ETT, stylet, blades, suction, BVM
 Cardiac monitor, pulse oximeter, ETCO2
 One ( preferably two ) iv lines
 Drugs
 Difficult airway kit including cric kit
 Patient positioning
 Lidocaine 1.5 mg/kg iv
 Defasciculating dose of non-depolarizing NMB
 Beta-blocker or fentanyl
 Induction agent
 Thiopental 3 - 5 mg/kg
 Midazolam 0.1 - 0.4mg/kg
 Ketamine 1.5 - 2.0 mg/kg
 Fentanyl 2 - 30 mcg/kg
 Succinylcholine 1.5 mg/kg iv
 Allow 45 - 60 seconds for complete muscle
relaxation
 Alternatives
 Vecuromium 0.1 - 0.2 mg/kg
 Rocuronium o.6 - 1.2 mg/kg
 Sellick maneuver
 initiate upon loss of consciousness
 continue until ETT balloon inflation
 release if active vomiting
 Wait for optimal paralysis
 Confirm tube placement with ETCO2
 Loss of sympathetic drive
 Myocardial infarction
 Tension pneumothorax
 Auto-peep
 Hyperkalemia - renal failure
 Active neuromuscular disease with functional
denervation (6 days to 6 months)
 Extensive burns or crush injuries
 Malignant hyperthermia
 Pseudocholinesterase deficiency
 Organophosphate poisoning
 Inability to secure airway
 Increased vagal tone (second dose)
 Histamine release (rare)
 Increased ICP/IOP/intragastric pressure
 Myalgias
 Hyperkalemia with burns, NM disease
 malignant hyperthermia
 Multiple blades and ETTs
 ETT guides ( stylets, bougé, light wand)
 Emergency nonsurgical ventilation (LMA,
combitube, TTJV )
 Emergency surgical airway access
( cricothyroidotomy kit, cricotomes )
 ETT placement verification
 Fiberoptic and retrograde intubation
 they are usually a bloody mess, but ...
 a bloody surgical airway is better than an
arrested patient with a nice looking neck

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 Safe airway management

 Protection against aspiration

 Assurance of oxygenation and ventilation

 Airway access for pulmonary toilet, drug

 Difficult bag-mask ventilation

 Lower airway difficulty

 The art of bagging should be mastered before

 Manual ventilation skill with proper equipment

 Head tilt, jaw lift, mouth opening

 knowledge and experience to overcome the

 learning practical airway management skills

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