Traditional & Emerging Approaches
to Challenging Cases
in Anesthesiology
The Adult Difficult Airway:
Malignant and Benign Tumors
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Release Date: August 1, 2005
Renewal Date: October 2, 2009
Expiration Date: October 2, 2010
Estimated Time of Completion: 60 minutes
Description
The Traditional and Emerging Approaches to Challenging Cases in Anesthesiology Series includes cases, corresponding to articles from Anesthesiology News.
Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Identify the safety motivation for optimal clinical airway management.
- Identify clinical factors that may make mask ventilation and tracheal intubation difficult.
- Discuss the importance of a preestablished management plan (eg, ASA difficult airway algorithm) in dealing with airway problems such as airway obstruction, problems with ventilation, or problems with intubation.
- Discuss the role of special laryngoscopes and equipment adjuncts in clinical airway management.
- Discuss the special role of awake intubation in patients that are expected to be difficult to intubate by ordinary means.
- Discuss the gas physics issues relating to helium/oxygen (heliox) and the strengths and limitations of its use in clinical airway management.
Target Audience
This activity is directed to anesthesiologists.
Accreditation
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.
Activity Director
John E. Tetzlaff, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
of Case Western Reserve University
Director, Center for Anesthesiology Education
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Author / Faculty
D. John Doyle, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Department of General Anesthesiology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Faculty Disclosure
In accordance with the Standards for Commercial Support issued by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education requires resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest to ensure CME activities are free of commercial bias.
The following faculty have indicated they have no relationship which, in the context of their presentation, could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:
D. John Doyle, MD, PhD, FRCPC
John E. Tetzlaff, MD
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education
acknowledges
an educational grant for support of this activity from:
Hospira
This CME activity was produced by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Center for Continuing Education and UNITECH Communications®.
