Speaker: Jacob Miller, DNP, MBA, ACNP, ENP-C, CNS, NRP
Nearly all airway courses focus on the physical task of intubation. Similarly, most "difficult airway" courses cover psychomotor and procedural challenges encountered in airway management. Here, we focus on the physiologic difficulties that can lead to clinical deterioration during the peri-intubation period and how to mitigate them. Next time you have to perform airway management, don't allow your patient to CRASH -- make sure their physiology has been optimized first!