Open access article addressing how to avoid this rare but often fatal complication of airway management…

Preventing unrecognized esophageal intubation in the emergency department ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Makes you wonder, aside from cost, which granted is not a trivial issue, whether there are any legitimate arguments for not using a videolaryngoscope routinely when a rigid laryngoscope is indicated for intubation

While FPS is associated with a reduction in peri-intubation complications, achieving FPS does not preclude the occurrence of complications

All set for our annual Airway Journal Club for the residents, which would be not be complete without a laryngoscope piñata. Finally found a use for the direct laryngoscope!
Garrett Pacheco

Prevention of unrecognized esophageal intubation in the ED requires a 2 pronged approach:

1. Routine use of VL to reduce the occurrence of esophageal intubation

2. Routine use of capnography to rapidly identify esophageal intubation

Very nice to have one of our friends from the UK join us at SAM 2023. This is shaping up to be a great meeting!

Major FOMO!

Thanks for the kind words Daniel. It looks like you and Matteo Parotto, MD PhD are working very hard to make SAM 2023 a great airway conference. And it’s in beautiful San Diego!

I woke up today wondering what was being argued on #AirwayTwitter today, but then I realized I had a root canal scheduled for this morning, and I was elated with my good fortune 😉

If you take a Mac VL with you, you are not in fact crossing the Rubicon

Recently published guideline written to help prevent unrecognized esophageal intubations👇

Preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation: a consensus guideline from the Project for Universal Management of … pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35977431/

We should be able to prevent all unrecognized esophageal intubations…

Preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation: a consensus guideline from the Project for Universal Management of Airways and international airway societies* …-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

We’re already planning for SAM 2023 which will be held in San Diego! Guaranteed to be a great airway meeting!

Excited to just have received in the mail the 6th Edition of the Wallls Manual of Emergency Airway Management!

Honored to have worked on this with such an illustrious group of editors!

Calvin Brown
Nate Mick MD
Jarrod Mosier, MD, FCCM
Darren Braude

I think I need to see the capnogram…😉