Supraglottic Airways; Roadside to Resus

The Resus Room

Simon Laing

Science, Emergencymedicine, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Em, Ae

4.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

So in this episode we’re going to have a deeper think about advanced airway management and specifically supraglottic use in the prehospital and ED environment.

Many prehospital service have seen the removal of intubation from their scope of practice, and that’s understandably been received with mixed thoughts.

But this isn’t the end of ‘expert advanced airway care for all; in fact far, far from it… we’ve all heard people talking about ‘whacking in an i-gel’, but really utilising a supraglottic device to its maximal potential can make a huge difference to our critically unwell patients.

We'll be running through an overview of supraglottic devices, the evidence surrounding their use, patient selection, patient positioning and size selection, placing a supraglottic device, troubleshooting and finally ongoing ventilation with a supraglottic device.

We'd love to hear any comments or feedback you have and make sure to take a look at the references and resources below.

Enjoy!

Simon, Rob & James

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the recess room podcast.
0:03.5	Five, four, three, two, one, fire.
0:12.1	So hi, and welcome back to the recess room podcast.
0:15.7	I'm Simon Lang.
0:16.9	I'm Rob Fenwick.
0:18.0	And I'm James Yates.
0:19.1	And we're all back together again for another
0:21.8	Roadside to Recess episode and this time we're going to be having a think about superglotic
0:27.3	airway devices yep so this is one that we've had on the back burner for a little while actually
0:32.6	and it's because we've covered it quite a bit on papers of the month and also with airways too and
0:37.0	things like that so this is something that we've been thinking about a bit on papers of the month and also with Airways 2 and things like that.
0:37.7	So this is something that we've been thinking about and there are really some technical aspects to the use of these devices and some nuances that we think we can hopefully spread our knowledge and hopefully make you all a little bit more confident and a little bit more proficient in their use.
0:53.8	Well, that's the plan I think anyway, isn't it, boys?
0:56.7	Let's hope so.
0:59.2	So this will be relevant both to the pre-hospital environment and to those of you working in hospitals.
1:05.1	And hopefully, we'll also create some food for thought.
1:08.5	Before we get on to the episode, a big thanks to S.J.Trem, the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma,
1:13.4	resuscitation, emergency medicine for supporting us with this podcast and making it all
1:17.4	free open access and available to you all to listen.
1:20.6	There are a free open access journal with all of their articles published online and go over to
1:25.0	our website at the recessroom.co.uk.
1:27.2	And have a look at the hyperlink to their website at the recessroom.com.uk and have a look at
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