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Scalpel-finger-tube emergency surgical cricothyroidotomy

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, January 18, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Saturday, May 19, 2012

Airway management is a hot topic amongst ED, critical care and pre-hospital communities and emergency cricothyroidotomies are generally the procedures that create the most angst. Largely it's the decision that it needs to be performed that fills most pants, rather than the actual doing. But just to make it a bit more troublesome, there are several approaches that are promoted.

Two Adelaide anaesthetists who also work in retreival, have rep...
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Inventive approach to rapid cricothyroidotomy

Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Thursday, January 16, 2014, In : Clinical topics 
Posted by Matthew Mac Partlin on Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Emergency cricothyroidotomy is a scary beast in the resus room of a tertiary hospital ED. Having it flop down in front of you at a race event is a pant filler!

There is constant debate over the best method to use, bouncing between needle cric and scalpel cric with various versions of tube introduction. There are supporters of both approaches, with cogent arguments on both sides, as seen on the previously mentionned EM Crit debate, betw...
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