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#JanuAIRWAY Day 10. The Cook Airway Exchange Catheter – it’s a useful piece of equipment, but one not everyone will be familiar with. Here’s a #OnePager. Let’s dive in…
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Main function is as a stop-gap to maintain tracheal access & facilitate ETT exchange. They are long, hollow, radiopaque, soft-tipped tubes – types for use with single / double lumen tubes.
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All users MUST be trained & knowledgeable of how to use such devices together with their limitations and dangers. The Gordon Ewing case makes for tragic reading – but highlights this point. Essential reading for airway practitioners.
🔗scotcourts.gov.uk/search-judgmen…
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To highlight – NEVER insert beyond 26cm. NEVER insufflate with an oxygen flow >2L/min ...or just NEVER insufflate with oxygen!
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Here are some papers / links that you might find interesting:
🔗pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology…
🔗pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12242925/
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If you have any others of interest, tweet them to us for inclusion next time!
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Hope that helps. Tomorrow we'll look at the Cook Aintree Intubation Catheter. See you then! #JanuAIRWAY 6/6

*Disclaimer: Inclusion of content (equipment, techniques and scoring systems etc.) in #JanuAIRWAY does not constitute DAS endorsement