Airway

Approach

  • Checklist
  • Optimize positioning

Preox

Mask

Supraglottic

  • LMA
  • King Airway
    • can generate higher peak pressures than LMA – useful in asthmatics or super obese especially if LMA is leaking
    • Balloons commonly get popped – if leaking probably needs to be pulled and replaced

Laryngoscopy

Intubation and initial vent

intubation-quick-reference

RSI

DSI

Awake

Medications

Devices

Post-Intubation Hypotension

AAHH SHITE

Acidosis, Anaphylaxis, Heart (tamponade), Heart (Pulmonary HTN), Stacked Breaths, Hypovolemia, Induction agent, Tension PTX, Electrolytes (HyperK after succ – consider empiric Ca++)