I greatly appreciate the invitation and opportunity to talk with you this year! Thank you for your attention and feedback on these presentations. If you have anything to add that didn't make it into the evaluations at the conference, please feel free to e-mail me.
I am posting the conference handouts for the three talks here in case you were not able to download them from the conference web site.
I also am posting a pdf version of the slides here as well. After the conference, I will post the "answers" to the handouts.
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Improving Basic Airway Management:
Managing The Difficult Airway:
Note: Here are the references to the 4-step surgical cricothyrotomy approach I mentioned during the lecture. These references are not in the handout (yet)!
References:
Brofeldt BT, Panacek EA, Richards JR. An easy cricothyrotomy approach: the rapid four-step technique. Acad Emerg Med 1996;3:1060-63.
Holmes JF, Panacek EA, Sakles JC, Brofeldt BT. Comparison of 2 cricothyrotomy techniques: standard method versus rapid 4-step technique. Ann Emerg Med. 1998 Oct;32(4):442-6.
Robinson KJ, Katz R, Jacobs LM. A 12-year experience with prehospital cricothyrotomies. Air Med J. 2001 Nov-Dec;20(6):27-30.
Boyle MF, Hatton D, Sheets C. Surgical cricothyrotomy performed by air ambulance flight nurses: A 5-year experience. J Emerg Med. 1993 Jan-Feb;11(1):41-5.
Fortune JB, Judkins, DG, Scanzaroli D, McLeod KB, Johnson SB. Efficacy of prehospital surgical cricothyrotomy in trauma patients. J Trauma. 1997 May;42(5):832-6; discussion 837-8.
Serious Illness - Benign Complaints (was: When Do I Need ALS?)
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