The approach taken by anaesthetists to a patient with a potentially full stomach requiring sedation seems to differ widely from that of some emergency physicians. I must qualify this statement by saying that this is not true of many emergency physicians with whom I work clinically. It has been a perspective I’ve largely been exposed… Read More »
I have no problem declaring that I am an occasional intubator. Although I’m an Emergency Physician working in a busy Metropolitan Emergency Department, most patients don’t require intubation. I’m also surrounded by extremely eager registrars who are always vying with each other, let alone the consultants, for airway experience when the need to intubate arises.… Read More »
In the operating theatre the anaesthetic machine, typically attached to a circle system in adults, fulfills most of the requirements of an ideal device for both preoxygenation (PreOx) & subsequent positive pressure ventilation for reoxygenation (ReOx) during the process of airway management. It provides high concentration oxygen through a low resistance circuit that retains a… Read More »