Search Tag: Intubation
2025 24 Jul
This review highlights airway management in traumatic brain injury, focusing on strategies to prevent secondary brain injury. Key interventions include advanced preoxygenation, haemodynamic stabilisation, cautious sedation, selective use of prehospital intubation or supraglottic devices, protective ventilation, and early antibiotic prophylaxis to...Read more
2019 26 Sep
Human factors are significant contributors to drug error. To overcome some of these human factors, we propose standardisation and consolidation of agreed drugs and equipment into a compact pre-packed critical care drug pouch (CCP) for use in non-theatre environments. Introduction Emergency and sedation drugs availability and preparation...Read more
2017 28 May
Inspired by the Difficult Airway Society Guidelines and the Vortex Cognitive Tool One of the main recommendations of the 4th National Audit Project of the UK Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society was that every intensive care unit (ICU) should have access to a difficult airway trolley, which should have the same content...Read more