CricEm if you Got Em’

Pragmatic Paramedics

In this episode we discuss trauma airway management with Doc Godfrey (CricEm if you got ‘em).

Doc sits down with us as we look at a paper from The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery which discusses prehospital definitive airway not being associated with improved survival in trauma patients.

Trauma airway management is complicated, but it doesn’t necessarily need to be… We talk about how to best utilize your clinical skills and assessment along with BLS and basic airway adjuncts as well as medical direction’s role and the effectiveness of appropriate training. Great chat and as always, we appreciate Doc CricEm (Godfrey) for coming on to talk with us to provide everyone with some quality evidence-based guidelines for airway management.

As always, thanks for listening and we hope this series provides just one more tool to help you better yourself and the patients we see daily.

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References Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery 89(2S):p S237-S241, August 2020. | DOI: 10.1097/TA.0000000000002722

The American Surgeon 87(1);159-161 January 2020 DOI:10.1177/0003134820945228