Article of the Month

    

Dear colleagues and airway enthusiast 
The European Airway Management Society is introducing a new feature – Article of the Month. 
This is designed to provide an opportunity to our members to highlight and share airway related topics and to open discussion forums in order to share clinical experience for the benefit of all EAMS members. 
The Article of the Month will be made available via the EAMS website and is going to be accompanied by a short text (up to 200 words) explaining why is this article being selected. 
EAMS members with login to eamshq.net will have access to the articles as full-text PDF's.
We would like to encourage our members to propose articles of the month. The short text accompanying the article will also be made available on line with full acknowledgement of the author who proposed the article. 
The final decision to go on-line will be taken by the EAMS Board of Directors. 

Best regards 
R. Tino Greif 
President of the European Airway Management Society

     

Dear co-airway-afficionados!

In patients with pathology of the neck ultrasonography is highly accurate in localizing the cricothyroid membrane and is comparable to CT-scan as the accepted standard. And in this population the cricothyroid membrane was only identified successfully in 8% of the patients whereas ultrasonography resulted in 81% success. These are the findings of our colleagues Siddiqui, You-Ten and co-workers from Toronto who authored the first of the two EAMS-articles-of-the –Month for May 2019. It thus seems beneficial to identify the cricothyroid membrane before initiating airway management in this notoriously difficult group of patients, and we should consider to use bedside-ultrasound for this purpose.

This leads to the second of the articles where we look at the useful information for managing the airway of the difficult patients that we gain from identifying both the cricothyroid membrane and other important structures of the front-of-the-neck.

Enjoy your reading!

And remember that it is possible to comment on all articles-of-the-month via our EAMS-webpage.

Best from Copenhagen!

Michael

Michael Seltz Kristensen

Siddiqui N, Yu E, Boulis S, You-Ten KE: Ultrasound Is Superior to Palpation in Identifying the Cricothyroid Membrane in Subjects with Poorly Defined Neck Landmarks: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Anesthesiology. 2018 Dec;129(6):1132-1139

Kristensen MS, Teoh WH: Front of neck: continued discovery of this anatomy essential for airway management, Br J Anaesth. 2018 May;120(5):895-898

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