Airway Management

In cardiopulmonary resuscitation, anaesthesia, emergency medicine, and intensive care medicine, airway management is the process or ensuring that:
  1. there is an open pathway between a patients lungs and the outside world, and
  2. the lungs are safe from aspiration.
In nearly all circumstances airway management is the highest priority for clinical care. The A is for airway in the ABC of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Techniques range from the very simple lateral position to complex specialised techniques such awake fiberoptic intubation.

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