EM C3

Providing airway management and ventilation

epa_guide_emergency_med_v2_2024, page 17

key features: focus on tracheal intubation of a patient with normal or predicted difficult airways, providing an appropriate ventilation strategy for hypoxic or ventilatory failure and providing appropriate post intubation care
for pediatric patients, focus on airway management, including LMA, BVM, and intubation

assessment plan

• direct observation by supervising physician or resident in TP - Transition to Practice
• Form 1
  • predicted difficult airway - yes, no
  • tracheal intubation - yes, no
    collect 20 observations of achievement
• at least 5 observations of predicted difficult airways based on patient anatomy or physiology
• at least 5 observations within the emergency department
• at least 10 adult tracheal intubations
• at least 10 pediatric presentations (LMA, BVM, or intubation)
• at least 5 pediatric presentations in the clinical environment