EM Cases · Front-of-neck access / surgical airway
Declared CICO — scalpel-bougie-tube station
ACEM Fellowship OSCE resus station testing CICO declaration, adult scalpel-bougie-tube technique, and why needle is not the adult default.
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Target exams
ACEMFRCEMABEMFRCPCCCFPEMEBEEM
Prompt
Failed intubation and failed oxygenation after facial trauma; team reaches for a needle cricothyroidotomy set.
Station brief
Format. Clinical-management (resus) station, 11 minutes.
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