Abstract
During management of difficult airway “Can not ventilate, can not intubate” is life threatening situation for the patients. This situation demand urgent need for creation of surgical airway if supra-glottic emergency air-way devices are not available or their use is not able to establish patent airway. Cricothyrotomy is a procedure that is life saving in such situations. All the physicians involved with resuscitation, initial trauma care and air-way management should be able to perform this emergency air-way rescue procedure safely in urgent situations of “Can not ventilate, can not intubate”. This chapter describes step wise approach for cricothyrotomy procedure.
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Arya, V.K. (2014). Cricothyrotomy. In: Khan, Z. (eds) Airway Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08578-4_12
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