This document provides airway tips and tricks for EMS providers. It discusses better positioning by elevating the trunk 20-30 degrees, even for infants. It emphasizes the importance of preoxygenation to achieve an SpO2 above 94% before intubation through various techniques. It also discusses maintaining oxygenation through apneic oxygenation techniques using high-flow nasal cannula for over 100 minutes. Other tips include using a two-handed mask seal technique, inserting an OPA and NPA to improve ventilation, and utilizing checklists to plan intubations and improve team performance. Resources for continuing education like blogs and podcasts are recommended.
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2015 airway tips and tricks v.02
1. Airway Tips and Tricks Your
Patient Cant Live Without!
Eastern OR EMS Conference 2015
2.
3. What we are going to talk about…
• Better….
– Positioning
– Oxygenation
– Facemask Seal
– Ventilation
– Nasal ETT
– Oral ETT
– Planning
• Better resources
– 5 blogs and podcasts that will change what you do!
14. What the anesthesia world thinks of it
• SPO2 > 94% before apnea WITH
preoxygenation efforts.
– Min of 3 minutes on well fitted NRB at flow rates >
15 LPM
OR
– 8-10 full inhalation/exhaltion breaths on 100%
Oxygen
– Nitrogen Washout
15. Nitrogen Washout and the Oxygen
Resovoir
• Normal FIO2 approx. .21-.24 (21-24%)
– Remainder is Nitrogen, CO2, and other gasses
• Tidal Volume is 600-800 cc
– “Dead Air Space” is approx. 150 cc
• If we replace that inert gas in the dead air
space with 100% Oxygen, what happens?
– “Nitrogen Washout”
– Dead Air Space (95%)
– Plasma (5%)
25. How long can this be done?
• At least 100 min
– Nielsen ND, Kjaergaard B, Koefoed-Nielsen J, et al. Apneic oxygenation
combined with extracorporeal arteriovenous carbon dioxide removal
provides sufficient gas exchange in experimental lung injury. ASAIO J.
2008;54:401-405
– Enghoff H, Holmdahl MH, Risholm L. Oxygen uptake in human lungs
without spontaneous or artificial pulmonary ventilation. Acta Chir
Scand. 1952;103:293-301.
– Holmdahl MH. Pulmonary uptake of oxygen, acid-base metabolism,
and circulation during prolonged apnoea. Acta Chir Scand Suppl.
1956;212:1-128..
26. Can you not bag at all?
• Answer: “Depends”
• Considerations:
– Obesity
– Shunt Physiology
– Shock
• What should you do?
– Cautious Bagging
– CPAP?
– Bagging with PEEP Valve?
27. KEY POINT:
• This works best when
you have excellent
airway positioning!
33. Which is better?
• In every study: 2 handed techniques out
performed 1 handed techniques.
• The T-E technique marginally delivered better
airway pressures and tidal volumes over the E-
C technique.
• TE produced less failed breaths
34. Nu MASK
• BLS difficult airway
Device
• Cheap and easy
42. Key Point!!!
• Airway pressures > 25 cmH2O can cause gastric
Distention
• Gastric Distention can cause vomiting
• Vomiting can cause aspiration
• Aspiration causes aspiration pneumonia in most
patients
• Aspiration Pneumonia kills 40-70% of its patients
• Don’t give ventilations at pressures > 25 cmH20
61. www.projectcheck.org
• Checklist are NOT
– A protocol
– A procedural checklist
– An algorithm
– A teaching tool
– Not an credentialing tool (NREMT)
• Checklist do:
– Red Label items
– Have Pause Points
– Have “Challenge and response”
– Are TEAM DRIVEN
– Are REALITY BASED
68. Important blogs and web series to
start following now!
• www.emcrit.org (Emergency Medicine Critical
Care)
• www.litfl.com (Life in the fast lane)
• www.rescusme.com (Resuscitate me)
• www.emupdates.com (Emergency medicine
Updates)
• www.rougemedic.com
Notas do Editor
Grrimm tv show reference
Im going to fill your toolbox/armory with tools for every occasion….
Preoxygenation for 3 – 5 minutes in a 20° head up position vs supine position:386 seconds vs 283 seconds to desaturate from 100% to 95% O2 saturation (Lane et al. 2005)*
452 seconds vs 364 seconds to desaturate to 93% (Ramkumar, Umesh, and Philip 2011)*
214 seconds vs 162 seconds to desaturate to 92% in patients with BMI > 40 kg/m2 (Benjamin J Dixon et al. 2005)*
Also consider reverse Trendelenburg position (head of bed 30º higher than foot) in trauma patients
Standard nonrebreather at 15L/minute will deliver 60 – 70% FiO2
The FiO2 can be increased to ≥90% by increasing the flow rate to 30 – 60L/min
Oxygen consumption is about 250 mL/minute or 3mL/kg/minute
A healthy person on room air can have a period of “safe apnea” of ≈ 1 minute
A healthy person on high FiO2 can have a period of “safe apnea” of ≈ 8 minutes
One study showed time to desaturation of < 90% O2 saturation after succinylcholine administration was 8 minutes (healthy patients), 5 minutes (moderately ill adults), and 2.7 minutes (obese adults) which is shown in the image to the right. (J L Benumof, Dagg, and R Benumof 1997)*
Conclusion: It is difficult to predict the time to desaturation after preoxygenation in the ED, but it is important to remember that critically ill and obese patients can desaturate quickly.
Oxygen consumption is about 250 mL/minute or 3mL/kg/minute The lungs hold 450 mL of oxygen when breathing room air but can increase to 3000 mL when breathing 100% O2 and replacing alveolar nitrogen
Study 1: In the operating room at the time of apnea, 5 L/min O2 via nasal cannula vs no O2 was tested to show time to desaturation of 95% and showed no desaturation out to 6 minutes in nasal cannula group vs 3.65 minutes in the no O2 group (Taha et al. 2006)*
Study 2: Obese patients in the operating room at the time of apnea, 5L/min O2 via nasal cannula vs no O2 was tested to show time to desaturation of ≥95% and showed a time of 5.29 minutes vs 3.49 minutes respectively (Ramachandran et al. 2010)*
Nasal cannula is the device of choice to provide apneic oxygenation and can be left on during pre oxygenation, bag valve mask ventilation, and during attempts for tracheal intubation.
The difference in oxygen and carbon dioxide movement across
the alveolar membrane is due to the significant differences in gas
solubility in the blood, as well as the affinity of hemoglobin for
oxygen. This causes the net pressure in the alveoli to become
slightly subatmospheric, generating a mass flow of gas from
pharynx to alveoli. This phenomenon, called apneic
oxygenation, permits maintenance of oxygenation without
spontaneous or administered ventilations. Under optimal
circumstances, a PaO2 can be maintained at greater than 100
mm Hg for up to 100 minutes without a single breath, although
the lack of ventilation will eventually cause marked hypercapnia
and significant acidosis.54
In patients who do not achieve an O2 saturation of >93 – 95% with 3 minutes of high FiO2 consider using positive pressure ventilation
These patients most likely have shunt physiology (i.e.alveoli are perfused but not ventilated), and require positive pressure ventilation and not more O2 to increase their oxygen saturation
This is extremely useful in obese patients: (Futier et al. 2011)*
66 patients with BMI of approximately 46 kg/m2
5 minutes of pre oxygenation with non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) vs spontaneous breathing of 100% FiO2
After preoxygenation, NIPPV group had a mean SpO2 of 98% vs spontaneous breathing group of 93%
During intubation NIPPV group only decreased SpO2 to 93% vs spontaneous breathing group of 81%
Positive pressure can be applied in one of three ways:
Walls RM, Murphy MF. Chapter 9: Bag-Mask Ventilation. Manual of Emergency Airway Management, 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2012.
Gerstein NS, Carey MC, Braude DA, et al. Efficacy of facemask ventilation techniques in novice providers. J Clin Anesth, 2013 May; 25(3): 193–7.
Walls RM, Murphy MF. Chapter 9: Bag-Mask Ventilation. Manual of Emergency Airway Management, 4th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2012.
Gerstein NS, Carey MC, Braude DA, et al. Efficacy of facemask ventilation techniques in novice providers. J Clin Anesth, 2013 May; 25(3): 193–7.
von Goedecke A, Wagner-Berger HG, Stadlbauer KH, et al. Effects of decreasing peak flow rate on stomach inflation during bag-valve-mask ventilation.Resuscitation, 2004; 63: 131–6.
t’s possible to limit the potential for high ventilation (inspiratory) pressures by placing a pressure manometer on your BVM each time one is used. High intrathoracic pressure is also a detriment to the critically ill patient, as it decreases venous return to the heart. Decreased venous return results in decreased preload. That in turn results in decreased stroke volume, decreased cardiac output and decreased blood pressure. So, overventilation in an already hemodynamically compromised patient can make them more hypotensive.
To avoid these complications, deliver ventilations slowly, over 1–2 seconds. Use as low of a tidal volume as needed to achieve normal chest rise and fall (typically about 5–7 mL/kg). Avoid unnecessarily high ventilation rates. If your patient has a pulse and pulse oximetry can be monitored, consider lowering your ventilation rate to one that achieves your goal of adequate oxygenation at as few breaths per minute as possible. In other words, if you can achieve acceptable oxygenation levels (94%–100% SpO2) at 8 breaths a minute, there is no reason to ventilate at 12.6 Monitoring the pulse oximetry in patients in cardiac arrest or extreme low-flow states is not an option. In such patients, relying on a predetermined ventilation rate—for example, 12 times a minute for an adult—is prudent.
Another adjunct that can be used to gauge the effectiveness of ventilation is EtCO2 monitoring. Use of a capnometer (a unit that gives a quantitative numerical readout) or capnograph (a unit that gives an EtCO2waveform) can be valuable in ventilated patients. Ventilation rate can be adjusted to maintain an EtCO2 of acceptable levels, most often 35–45 mmHg.
Kiwi Grip invented by Paul Baker (per airwaycam.com)
The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200, registered N106US, operating as a US Airways scheduled domestic commercial passenger flight from LaGuardia Airport in New York City to Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Washington. About three minutes into the flight, at 3:27 p.m. EST, the plane struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from LaGuardia, just northeast of theGeorge Washington Bridge. The bird strike caused both jet engines to quickly lose power.
First Officer Skiles was at the controls of the flight when it took off to the northeast from Runway 4 at 3:25 pm, and was the first to notice a formation of birds approaching the aircraft about two minutes later, while passing through an altitude of about 2,700 feet (820 m)[4] on the initial climb out to 15,000 feet (4,600 m).
Descison, checklists, and successful ditching occurred injust over 3 minutes.