2. Basics of Airway Management
Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Department
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Resuscitation
Council
Track score - a score of > 4 triggers a review by doctor
Objectives:
Identify the causes of airway obstruction and how
to recognize
Review basic airway maneuvers
Airway Adjuncts, Advanced airway devices
Indications, limitation, proper sizing and insertion
technique of each
Ventilation & oxygen delivery devices
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Resuscitation
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Advanced devices
LMA (Laryngeal Mask Airway)
Advantages:
Used by nursing, paramedical and
medical staff
Decreases the risk of gastric inflation
and regurgitation.
Device of choice in suspected cervical
spine injury. insertion not require head
extension
used if tracheal intubation is failed and
bag mask ventilation is impossible.
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Resuscitation
Council
LMA
insertion
Select the appropriate size
5 for adult male - 4 for
female.
Holding the mask like a pen
Advance the tip behind the upper incisors with the upper surface applied to the
palate until it reaches the posterior pharyngeal wall, press the mask downwards
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Resuscitation
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Limitations :
Significant leak and hypoventilation is
caused in pulmonary oedema, bronchospasm
and COPD.
Risk of aspiration (Theoretically)
Laryngeal spasm if not deeply unconscious
patient.
Airway obstruction by the epiglottis
folding down to cover the laryngeal inlet.
LMA (Laryngeal Mask Airway)