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Archive > May, 2008 Vol. IX, No. 5

Managing the Difficult Airway

Pre-assessment strategies to avoid challenging intubations before they start.

Adam Dorin, MD, MBA

One of the greatest challenges we anesthesia providers face is protecting and maintaining a safe and patent airway so that patients can get oxygen and anesthetic agents as well as release expired carbon dioxide and residual inhalational gases. But what about those patients whom you just can't intubate? In this article, we'll tell you how to single out patients who have difficult airways before they arrive in your ORs and how to tailor a management plan just for them.

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