Lesson 5 - Direct Laryngoscopy: MICU Fellows Airway Course

At last, we arrived! All of the preceding chapters served as necessary to this -- the thing we usually think of when we mention an airway course. This is the way we put the tube in most of the time, after all. Preparation is everything -- get the patient in a good position, the sniffing position, to align all the different axes so you get the “straightest possible shot“ into the trachea. Now that you have them lined up, induce with those agents/relaxants that work out best for this particular patient.