EM Cases · ED airway management and RSI
RSI in the shocked septic patient — resus station
ACEM Fellowship OSCE resus station testing resuscitate-before-intubate, drug choice for shock, preoxygenation/apnoeic oxygenation, first-pass plan, and failed-airway readiness.
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Target exams
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Prompt
A hypotensive, hypoxic pneumonia patient needs intubation; the team is about to induce with high-dose propofol on the trolley.
Station brief
Format. Clinical-management (resus) station, 11 minutes. You are the EM consultant.
References2ShowHide
- [1]Frerk C, Mitchell VS, McNarry AF, et al. Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults. Br J Anaesth, 2015.PMID 26556848
- [2]Cook TM, Woodall N, Harper J, et al. Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and the Difficult Airway Society. Part 2: intensive care and emergency departments. Br J Anaesth, 2011.PMID 21447489