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Editor s note: This article originally appeared as part of our Grand Rounds blog series. Grand Rounds is a monthly blog developed by EMS World and FlightBridgeED that features top EMS medical directors exploring the intricacies of critical care in EMS practice. In this installment FlightBridgeED’s associate medical director of airway and ventilation, Jim DuCanto, MD, reviews airway management during the COVID pandemic.
I was recently asked to provide a summary of the tools and techniques relevant to airway management in the COVID-19 pandemic for the 2020 World Trauma Symposium, and this article will summarize that presentation.
To summarize its principal points, we’ll discuss the evolution of personal protective equipment (PPE), the standardized use of HEPA filters in prehospital and hospital respiratory care, and two other techniques to reduce emissions of contaminated aerosols into the clinical working environment. We’ll finish our discussion of aerosol abatement strat