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Scott Weingart, MD FCCM. Podcast 142 – Airway Things I Learned from George Kovacs at the NYC Airway Course. EMCrit Blog. Published on January 25, 2015. Accessed on July 3rd 2022. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/airway-kovacs/ ].
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Great podcast, thanks. When I was a pulmonary fellow one of my jobs was to perform upper airway anesthesia before bronchoscopy using an atomizer very similar to the EZ Atomizer. It worked great. You start by anesthetizing the tongue and the back of the throat. Then, you can gently and progressively insert the atomizer deeper and deeper into the upper airway, anesthetizing as you go. Eventually you can wind up fairly deep in the oropharynx. The tip of the atomizer is flexible, and can be pointed downwards to aim the lidocaine towards the vocal cords and trachea. The patient can… Read more »
Here is a video of George Kovacs actually getting this procedure done to himself yesterday during his AIME Advanced course in Halifax:
http://advancedparamedicine.ca/posts/aime-airway-topicalization/
(Posted with his permission)