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Our goal:
To reduce the likelihood of adverse anesthetic outcomes through
education and discussion of difficult airway management scenarios.
Expertise in airway
management is important to every medical specialty.
Maintaining a patent airway is vital while providing adequate oxygenation
and ventilation.
Failure to do so for even
a brief period can be disastrous.
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Difficulty in managing the airway is the single most
important cause of major anesthesia-related morbidity and
mortality. |
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Excluding dental damage, the single largest
category of anesthetic-related
injury is respiratory events.
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The three main causes of respiratory-related
injury are:
 inadequate
ventilation,
esophageal
intubation,
and
difficult tracheal intubation.
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Based on these evidences, the American Society
of Anesthesiology(ASA) published recommended guidelines for dealing
with the airway.
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The ASA guidelines
presented at this website are recommendations
and are not
intended as standards or absolute requirements.
Read
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References:
Clinical
Anesthesia / Editor: Barash, Paul G.; Cullen,
Bruce F.; Stoelting, Robert K.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Edition: 4th Edition |
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3° Difficult Airway
Course - 26 April 2008
Hospital das
Clínicas
Faculdade de
Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil
 full day
immersion experience in emergency airway management
focusing
on the Difficult and Failed Airway.
expert
faculty, teaching in small interactive groups
utilizing
the latest in simulation technology |
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