NextGen Learning To Elevate Your Airway Practice
Tactic #1 Optimization
Not getting it right on the first try is less important than what you do next. You need tactics for each upper airway lifeline so that you can rapidly cycle through them and optimize your performance.
Tactic #2 Best Effort
“The term ‘best effort’ is used by the Vortex Approach to describe how all viable strategies to facilitate success at entering the Green Zone via a given lifeline have been implemented. Up to three attempts (+/- a ‘gamechanger’ – see below), each incorporating additional optimizations that have not previously been implemented, are permitted to complete the best effort. The specific optimizations employed and the number of appropriate attempts are context-dependent decisions to be made by the airway operator within the confines of the principles set out by the Vortex Approach.
Know When It’s Time to Move On
If alveolar oxygen is not achieved following a completed best effort with a particular lifeline, then no further attempts at that lifeline should occur. Efforts should instead focus on establishing alveolar oxygen delivery via an alternate lifeline or initiating Neck Rescue if all three lifelines have been unsuccessful.
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