2014, Number 1
Supraglottic devises in intensive care
Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 80-83
PDF size: 82.21 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the control of the air passage in the critical patient may be often difficult with an elevated risk of boarding in front of some situations. Supraglottic devises are among the protocols of difficult air passage and at the same time they are instruments of rescue in boarding.Objective: to make a bibliographical revision about this topic in which the problem was confirmed that the air passage is anatomically difficult and has a great usefulness for these devises in some conditions like orotracheal intubation in the Intensive Care Unit.
Clinical case: patients who are impossible to intubate and where the use of supraglottic devises (larynx mask) were of a great usefulness in the protection of the air passage.
Conclusion: we must count on medical personnel, experienced in boarding the air passage and they must be acquainted with the use of supraglottic devises as rescue instruments for similar situations in all emergency services in the same way that the patrol car exists.
REFERENCES
Cárdenas González A, Fernández Ramos H, Pozo Romero JA, Correa Borrell M. Alternativas a la intubación orotraqueal ante una vía aérea difícil en nuestro medio. Revista Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación 2011; 10(2):1-10. [En línea]. (Consultado: 13 enero 2013). Disponible: http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/scar/vol_10_2_11/ane04211.htm.
4th National Audit Project of The Royal College of Anaesthetists and The Difficult Airway Society. Major complications of airway management in the United Kingdom. Report and findings. London: The Royal College of Anesthetists 2011:71-79. [En línea]. (Consultado: 13 enero 2013). Disponible: http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/system/files/CSQ-NAP4-Full.pdf ·