Cric kits now & then...

Mon Apr 14 16:40:31 BST 2008

I actually had the same problem with a patient with massive facial  
trauma, and in addition to the lack of seal, blood would splutter from  
his face everytime we bagged him. However I did notice the new Cook  
kits and they do have a cuff at the end. Still as a surgeon I do  
prefer the old fashion way of performing the cric. and even using a  
number 6 ETT if I don't have a cric tube.

Abdullah Al- Harthy

On 14-Apr-08, at 5:36 PM, Sanjay Gupta MD wrote:

> Is this the kit in which the cric tube has no balloon.
> If it is, then at least for the actual airway I would
> either use a size 6 ET tube or tracheostomy tube.  I
> have faced this situation once, where I used the
> supplied cric tube and although I could ventilate, the
> patient stayed hypoxic because of the air leak.
>
>
> Sanjay
>
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> --- Ivan Hronek <ivanhronek at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Can people share their experiences with
>> cricothyrotomies with the Airstat, Quicktrach,
>> Melker Seldinger technique etc..I found (in the one
>> that I did) one has no time in a
>> failure-to-intubate/failure-to-ventilate situation
>> in an anoxic patient to play with the Seldinger
>> tech(Melker kit) and I am thinking the one-move
>> access that the "catheter-over-needle" techniques
>> allow is to be used.
>>
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>> FYI . . . Another product.  I have seen this work.
>> Bought one for all of my trauma and critical care
>> surgeons.
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>> http://airstat.org/
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>> What striked me was how similar these principles
>> still are...
>> this is a picture of the currently available cric
>> kit...
>>
> http://www.statkit.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product&itemnum=1195
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>> Rusch QuickTrach Emergency Cricothyrotomy - 4.0mm
>> currently used device
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> http://www.adair.at/eng/museum/equipment/surgery/ 
> ueckermannobject01.htm
>> Ueckermann Cricothyrotomy Trocar (Manufacturer
>> Unknown, Object Number 1)
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>> Ueckermann cricothyrotomy trocar with metal
>> cricothyrotomy tube (see Figures 1 to 4) from the
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>> Figure 1: Ueckermann cricothyrotomy trocar with
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>> Figure 2: Ueckermann cricothyrotomy trocar with
>> metal cricothyrotomy tube. Reproduced by courtesy of
>> the Private Collection of Jean-Bernard Cazalaa
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>> Figure 3: Ueckermann cricothyrotomy trocar with
>> metal cricothyrotomy tube. Reproduced by courtesy of
>> the Private Collection of Jean-Bernard Cazalaa
>> (Paris, France).
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>> Figure 4: Ueckermann cricothyrotomy trocar with
>> metal cricothyrotomy tube. Reproduced by courtesy of
>> the Private Collection of Jean-Bernard Cazalaa
>> (Paris, France).
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