User:Bron766/My Portfolio/Airway

Positioning techniques
 * Chin lift
 * Head tilt
 * Jaw thrust
 * Ear to sternal notch

Bag/mask ventilation and adjuncts
 * Oropharyngeal airway
 * Nasopharyngeal airway

Supraglottic / extraglottic airways
 * Laryngeal mask
 * Combitube

Intubation
 * When and why is it indicated?
 * How is it done
 * Preoxygenation
 * NODESAT
 * Direct laryngoscopy
 * Video laryngoscopy
 * Digital intubation
 * Paediatric intubation
 * Extubation - when, why and how

Surgical airways
 * Open cricothyroidotomy
 * Needle cricothyroidotomy
 * Tracheostomy
 * Decannulation
 * Tube changes
 * Speaking valves etc.
 * Retrograde intubation

Difficult airways
 * Assessment and prediction
 * Mallampatti score
 * Thyromental / sternomental distances etc.
 * History and examination
 * Scenarios
 * Inhaled foreign body
 * Acute Cervical spine injury
 * Intubation sitting up
 * Trismus
 * Laryngospasm
 * Epiglottitis
 * Haemorrhage (major or minor)
 * Vomit / aspiration
 * Wired jaw +/- vomiting
 * Obesity
 * Hanging
 * Patient on floor (fell out of bed...)

Quality, safety and performance
 * Intubation checklists
 * Intubation equipment dumps