Procedures

The Physiologically Difficult Airway: Prediction, Mitigation, and Recovery

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

• 

  Kunal Karamchandani, MD, FCCP, FCCM

  Associate Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care
  UT Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas, Texas
• MJ

  Mary Jarzebowski, MD

  Henry Ford Health System
  Detroit, MI

Physiologic derangements during and after airway management in the ICU occur far more commonly than technically challenging airway management. The physiologically difficult airway is an emerging concept that describes clinical scenarios in which patients are at heightened risk from adverse cardiopulmonary outcomes related to airway management. Technical advances in airway management have reduced the incidence of the classically defined technically difficult airway; however, strategies to predict, mitigate, and recover from physiologic derangements are important to further patient safety during this common bedside procedure.

Presentations:

• Incidence, Outcomes, and Prediction of the Physiologically Difficult Airway
• Approaches to Temporize Hypoxemia During Airway Management
• Prevention and Recovery From Cardiovascular Instability During and After Airway Management