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• Pre-operative airway assessment | Anesthesia Airway Management (AAM)

  Oxygenation with a infraglottic airway/ FONA as a last resort Predicting difficulties with ventilation and oxygenation is more important than predicting difficulties with laryngoscopy. Failed lary...

• Airway techniques | Anesthesia Airway Management (AAM)

    For many tasks and procedures in airway management there is more than one right way of doing it. In the description of various techniques therefore we acknowledge that it might not be the 'best' w...

• The 'difficult' airway | Anesthesia Airway Management (AAM)

  Anticipated difficult airway preoperative airway assessment!), it allows for the formulation of a safe airway management strategy before you put the patient to sleep. You will have enough time to dev...

• Airway assessment | Anesthesia Airway Management (AAM)

  Airway assessment We have split this topic into two sections, one dealing with assessing the obstructed airway in patients with varying degrees of (acute) airway compromise, and the other one cover...

• Supraglottic airways (SGAs) | Anesthesia Airway Management (AAM)

  Terminology First off, a little bit on the (potentially confusing) terminology: Since we all like acronyms in medicine you'll often hear any supraglottic airway referred to as an 'LMA', short for ...

• Oxygen delivery devices | Anesthesia Airway Management (AAM)

  oxygen therapy and, in some cases,  non-invasive ventilation or  Devices delivering high-flow nasal oxygen are dicussed elsewhere Performance of these devices can be described according to 1. th...