Airway Techniques and Equipment
UChicago Medicine
Dany Accilien, MD
Emergency Medicine Resident
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Dexter C. Graves, MD
Emergency Medicine Resident
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Nicholas Ludmer, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Stephen Estime, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Abdullah Hasan Pratt, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
In this video, Dr. Pratt goes over airway management techniques in trauma resuscitation. It outlines the preparation and equipment used in patients with impending airway failure that require manual or mechanical ventilation. Also discussed are the innovative airway towers used in the University of Chicago emergency room as well as the general approach to airway management. The different types of laryngoscopy, assist devices, and cricothyroidotomy surgical airway procedures are also presented.