Flight Physician and Assistant Medical Director AirMed, University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Management of the anatomically difficult airway has been researched, taught, and practiced for decades, but new data continues to evolve our best-practices. The concept of the physiologically difficult airway has gotten lot's of recent attention, because it has recently been identified as a major risk factor for peri-intubation cardiac arrest and other serious airway management complications. This session will talk about what we know about these challenging problems, what we don't know about them yet, and what the current expert opinions and best-practices are to manage these difficult cases. It will wrap up with a few case scenarios to put these concepts into practice.
Learning Objectives:
describe the current standards of care for managing the anatomically difficult airway in the critical care transport environment.
define the physiologically difficult airway, and understand why it is so dangerous.
describe some potential strategies and tactics to manage patients with physiologically difficult airway.
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