THE DIFFICULT AIRWAY ALGORITHM, STEP-BY-STEP │ EP111
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In this episode:
- The three decisions that shape every airway plan: awake or asleep, noninvasive or invasive, and preserve or ablate spontaneous ventilation
- The most important fork in the algorithm, can you oxygenate or not, and how it sends you down the non-emergency pathway or the emergency pathway
- Managing the cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate crisis, including front-of-neck access and the scalpel-bougie-tube technique
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