How to Pre-Oxygenate a Patient With High O2 Deficit

The most common physiologically difficulty we face in emergency medicine is the patient with the high oxygen deficit. The right way to approach these patients is to maximally pre-oxygenate, which means nasal cannula underneath non-invasive ventilation at 100% of IO2 with high peep. And after you induce, you want to do a jaw thrust to keep the airway paid as the patient loses muscle tone so that apnea oxygenation can proceed.