Welcome to the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast with your host, Dr. Anton Hellman, bringing you Canada's

brightest minds in emergency medicine from EMC studios in Toronto.

This year's completely sold out Emergency Medicine Update Conference in Toronto was a blast.

We had Alma Matu, Sarah Gray, Walter Himmel, Chris Hicks, Kylie Bosman, Aaron Ciel, and a long list of all-star

educators give talks. They ran hands-on workshops and they inspired everyone there to be the best

emergency providers they could be. And I had the great

fortune myself to do a live podcast in the main hall on airway pitfalls with the man who brings

upstairs downstairs. That's right, Scott Weingart. And here it is. The vast majority of

airway disasters happen when a routine intubation turns into a crash intubation. You know, for the vast majority of airway disasters happen when a routine intubation turns into a crash intubation.

You know, for the vast majority of these cases, we have time.

So we're going to talk about these six pitfalls.

First, without a plan, when things go badly, you're screwed.

Next, without all your vectors optimized in the best patient position, getting that tube in

will be more difficult and your patient's physiology will not be optimized.

Next, if you don't get that O2 set as good as you can before intubation, again, you're

asking for the patient to crash.

All right. And then we're going to talk about optimizing hemodynamics. We're going to talk about

the human dynamically protected one. We're going to consider awake intubation, not just for that

crashing blood pressure patient, but also for the anatomically difficult patient. And then on

we're going to talk about my favorite topic in the whole wide world, which is taking

a scalpel to a patient's neck when it's going to save their life.

All right, let's jump into our first case.

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