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Dissemination of Critical Airway Information

Key Points The consequences of a difficult airway (DA) may include minor or major adverse medical events or death, professional liability to the practitioner, and direct and indirect costs to the patient and healthcare system. DA still accounts for the…

Surgical Airway in Emergent and Nonemergent Contexts

Key Points For anatomic reasons, emergency surgical airway in the hands of advanced airway managers will usually be a cricothyrotomy. The critical step in cricothyrotomy is recognizing when it is required. Decision-making should not be left solely to the airway…