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Scott Weingart, MD FCCM. A Guide to Intubating through the Intubating Laryngeal Airway by James DuCanto. EMCrit Blog. Published on April 30, 2012. Accessed on April 20th 2024. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/guide-intubating-through-ila/ ].
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Thanks for posting it! This guide is almost 7 years old, by the way. I use this technique with both recognized difficult airways and unrecognized difficult airways. In recognized difficult airways, I will often place the Air-Q under moderate to deep sedation, ventilate the patient, squirt topical lidocaine through the mask to topicalize the airway and then intubate through the Air-Q with this technique. Refer to Mihn’s photos for a more “modern” shape that is suitable for this procedure–the shape shown in this guide corresponds to information I garnered 7 years ago during my initial discovery of this procedure. The… Read more »
Folks, send me your airway, sedation and anaesthesia questions For Jim to answer when I interview him in an upcomng episode!