Thomas Wherry, MD, medical director for Health Inventures and principal for Total Anesthesia Solutions, discusses four best practices for managing a difficult airway. 1. Develop a difficult airway ...

A report on advanced airway management in patients with a known complex disease has highlighted problems that occur when clinicians are confronted with patients who have a known difficult airway, and ...

Airway management is a cornerstone of emergency, critical care, and anesthesia practice, where precision can mean the difference between life and death. From updated guidelines and advanced devices to ...

Ultrasound techniques have emerged as a transformative adjunct in the management of difficult airways, providing real‐time, non‐invasive visualisation of the anatomical structures critical to airway ...

When techniques that paramedics could improve upon are discussed, often, the topic of advanced airway comes up. We have statistically low success rates in achieving an advanced airway with an ...

A man in his early fifties developed lingual and sublingual haematomas causing acute airway compromise that required an emergent tracheostomy. He had been on warfarin following prosthetic mitral valve ...