Emergency Airway Access by Cricothyrotomy

Emergency airway access by cricothyrotomy is a surgical way to create a breathing route when standard intubation fails. It uses an incision through the cricothyroid membrane to place a tube into the airway. This option is used in the feared "can't intubate, can't ventilate" situation, when endotracheal intubation h...

Open cricothyrotomy is an emergent surgical procedure of choice in the feared "can't intubate, can't ventilate" scenario, which means that all other forms of endotracheal intubation have failed and the spontaneous ventilation is worsening or becoming impossible. It is performed to establish an airway access by passage of a tube through an incisi...