“The evidence is clear: when an Emergency Surgical Airway is required, it is not the procedure that kills the patients, but delaying or not doing it is what causes harm.”
- Dr Cook & Dr MacDougall-Davis, Complications and failure of airway management, British Journal of Anaesthesia.
the day after you post this i experiment a cannot ventilate issue : a big vocal cord polype that closed glottis : that’s frightening with a really quick desat !
(we immediately think about an “intercricothyrotomy” (? english name unknown) but fortunately i was able to suck the polyp with the aspiration cannula to manage the intubation without big harm)