Hey folks, Scott Weingard here, and this is an Amicrit podcast. Today, on the podcast, we're going to

discuss awake nasotracheal intubation. And I don't know why, but this was an itch I had a scratch.

I wanted to do this episode. And in fact, it would make more sense if I did the oral

intubation with a bronchoscope first. But I don't know, this was the one I had a

hankering to get done. It took a lot of logistic searches. That's what this episode primarily

is going to be about, is the logistics of awake nasotracheal intubation. And then on that show on the oral, that's when I'll go over

scope movement and a lot of stuff on the actual performance of using a bronchoscope for intubation.

I'll touch on that a little bit today, but that'll be saved for the next time in its majority.

So today, really,

nasotrachial intubation is a lot of logistics. It's a lot of getting stuff right before you ever get to the patient who needs it. And if you don't have that done, it's going to be a real

pain in the butt. You're going to be really surprised at how annoying it is when you have

a size six tube and you finally found the cords,

dropped your scope, and are ready to pass the tube and realize it doesn't come close to reaching,

which, you know, you have to discover that for yourself once on a really critical patient

to realize you never want it to happen again. So that's what we're going to be dealing with a lot

today. Before we get there, a quick plea.

Folks, before we jump in, I want to tell you about an event that I'm trying to get off

the ground with some of my friends. It's awake and aware six. And I've participated in the last

three of these, some of the best conferences I've ever gone to in the non-clinical space.

We did it last year. It was the best ever. We all left that conference, all of the participants, all of the instructors, and said that was something magical.

We had basically created a bubble. Our everyday lives had disappeared. I had spoken to people at a level

of depth that I don't often get to do in regular life. It was just fantastic. The feedback was

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