A nextgen learning spaced designed to elevate your airway practice
Introduction
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AUDIO INTRO – COMING SOON
A few cognitive tools to help you predict a potentially difficult airway. Let’s talk about their benefits and limitations.
The Digital Learning Space
Enhanced Online Content
Scroll down and enter. Explore each section below, or use the navigation tool here to go directly to the content you’re interested in. Then, in the physical space look for the guided practice icons for hands-on procedure and skills training.
Navigation
mnemonics
Can you predict difficulty? We get into this murky topic later, but for now, we want to give you some quick assessment tools in easy mnemonic form so that you can start to apply them at the bedside for your next airway. Remembering these is helpful but we suggest that as you review them you start to notice the patterns and themes that run through each for what makes an airway “difficult” since at the end of the day this is really what really matters, being able to identify the difficult BEFORE it happens to you unexpectedly.
For Face Mask Ventilation
Difficult BVM = BONES
What are the characteristics or elements that may make someone difficult to bag (ie perform face mask ventilation with a BVM)? Review them here.
For Endotracheal Intubation
difficult to intubate = lemon
Is your patient potentially difficult to intubate? The LEMON mnemonic can help you decide.
For Supraglottic Airway Placement
DIFFICULT SUPRAGLOTTIC = RODS
For Front of Neck Access (FONA)
DIFFICULT SURGICAL AIRWAY = SHORT
Curated Social MedEd
MY LUMPS
No discussion of the FONA assessment would be complete without the greatest performance of FONA anatomy palpation of all time.
User Guide
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- Open the guide to a tab on your browser.
- Visit each poster & review the content.
- Complete any challenges to earn points.
What’s Next
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Online Only
If you can’t be with us in person, you can still use this enhanced digital content as an online course. Visit the digital home page of this learning space by using the link below. Otherwise, head to the next poster above to continue through the physical learning space.
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