Can't Intubate Can't Oxygenate; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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What Is a Difficult Airway?
A systematic review in 2013 from Langvad looked at multiple different systems and gave a feel for their rates of cannot intubate, cannot ventilate. London Air Ambulance published their data on 20 years of emergency scalpel chrychothorodosomy with 97% of these attempts being successful. A difficult airway is so much more than that, isn't it? It's totally multifactorial. And there can be a physiological difficult airway, a patient who's already really compromised who then needs anesthesia for intubation. There's so much stuff that feeds into the success of an intubation but we might cover some of that on our course.
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