Airway Management: Techniques and Equipment
Dany Accilien, MD^*, Dexter C. Graves, MD^*, Nicholas Ludmer, MD^†, Stephen Estime, MD^†, Abdullah Hasan Pratt, MD
UChicago Medicine

This video article discusses airway management techniques in trauma resuscitation. It outlines the preparation and equipment used in patients with impending airway failure that require airway protection and ventilatory support. We discuss the innovative airway towers used in the University of Chicago emergency room as well as the general approach to airway management. We also go over the different types of laryngoscopy, assist devices, and cricothyroidotomy surgical airway procedures.