Tag: airway

Morning Report: 5/2/2013

Here’s Dr. Kong with today’s Morning Report!   Intubation of the Asthmatic   Summary: 1. Exhaust all pharmacologic and non-invasive breathing therapies 2. The decision to intubate is usually clinical. 3. Remember good pre-intubation prep. 4. Predicted difficult intubation: hard…

Morning Report: 4/26/2013

Today’s Morning Report is courtesy of Dr. Basile!   Delayed Sequence Intubation Why do this? –        Standard preoxygenation with NRB mask (65-80% FiO2) for 3 min or 8 vital capacity breaths has been shown to provide a buffer of 8…