enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Advanced airway management - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_airway_management

    Advanced airway management is the subset of airway management that involves advanced training, skill, and invasiveness. It encompasses various techniques performed to create an open or patent airway – a clear path between a patient's lungs and the outside world.

  3. Simplified Airway Risk Index - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Airway_Risk_Index

    The Simplified Airway Risk Index (SARI), or El-Ganzouri Risk Index (EGRI), is a multivariate risk score thought to estimate the risk of difficult tracheal intubation. The SARI score ranges from 0 to 12 points, where a higher number of points indicates a more difficult airway. A SARI score of 4 or above is thought to indicate a difficult ...

  4. Transtracheal jet ventilation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transtracheal_jet_ventilation

    Transtracheal jet ventilation refers to a type of high-frequency ventilation, low tidal volume ventilation provided via a laryngeal catheter by specialized ventilators that are usually only available in the operating room or intensive care unit.

  5. ABC (medicine) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(medicine)

    Airway, breathing, and circulation, therefore work in a cascade; if the patient's airway is blocked, breathing will not be possible, and oxygen cannot reach the lungs and be transported around the body in the blood, which will result in hypoxia and cardiac arrest. Ensuring a clear airway is therefore the first step in treating any patient; once ...

  6. Mallampati score - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallampati_score

    A systematic review of 42 studies, with 34,513 participants, found that the modified Mallampati score is a good predictor of difficult direct laryngoscopy and intubation, but poor at predicting difficult bag mask ventilation.

  7. Tracheal intubation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracheal_intubation

    Tracheal intubation in the emergency setting can be difficult with the fiberoptic bronchoscope due to blood, vomit, or secretions in the airway and poor patient cooperation. Because of this, patients with massive facial injury, complete upper airway obstruction, severely diminished ventilation, or profuse upper airway bleeding are poor ...

  8. Cricothyrotomy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricothyrotomy

    A cricothyrotomy (also called cricothyroidotomy or laryngotomy) is an incision made through the skin and cricothyroid membrane to establish a patient airway during certain life-threatening situations, such as airway obstruction by a foreign body, angioedema, or massive facial trauma.

  9. Airway management - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway_management

    Airway obstruction can be caused by the tongue, foreign objects, the tissues of the airway itself, and bodily fluids such as blood and gastric contents . [citation needed] Airway management is commonly divided into two categories: basic and advanced.