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Advantages |
Disadvantages |
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Bag Valve Mask |
Quick and Easy |
Does not prevent aspiration |
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MacIntosh Blade |
Effective |
Difficult with large tongue, small mouths |
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Miller Blade |
Effective |
May cause more airway trauma than Mac |
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Nasal intubation |
More tolerable for awake patients |
Bleeding, must be breathing, not for use in facial fractures |
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Digital intubation |
Fast, easy, no tools required |
Rescuer may get bitten |
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Retrograde intubation |
Does not move neck |
Invasive |
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King LTD / LTSD |
Quick and easy, no c-spine manipulation |
Size variations based on patient anatomy / size |
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Laryngeal Mask Airway |
Easy, little cervical movement |
Does not prevent aspiration, is not secure |
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Combitube |
Blind, may prevent aspiration, little cervical movement |
Need to choose correct port. May not form tight seal |
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Needle cricothyrotomy |
Quick |
Need high pressure to ventilate (barotrauma), invasive |
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Open cricothyrotomy |
Definitive airway |
Most invasive, most training needed |
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Video Laryngoscope |
Direct vizualization; good for difficult airways |
Cost, training and limited adult sizes |