Accreditation

1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
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Target Audience

This activity is directed to anesthesiologists.

Activity Design

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:

1. Identify the safety motivation for optimal clinical airway management.
2. Identify clinical factors that may make mask ventilation and tracheal intubation difficult.
3. 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.
4. Discuss the role of special laryngoscopes and equipment adjuncts in clinical airway management.
5. Discuss the special role of awake intubation in patients that are expected to be difficult to intubate by ordinary means.
6. Discuss the gas physics issues relating to helium/oxygen (heliox) and the strengths and limitations of its use in clinical airway management.

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
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Author

D. John Doyle, MD, PhD, FRCPC

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 has indicated he has no relationship which, in the context of his presentation(s), could be perceived as a potential conflict of interest:

D. John Doyle, MD, PhD, FRCPC