Seat of Your Pants Surgical Airway - Emergency Cricothyrotomy

** THIS IS A PARAMEDIC TRAINED AND ABOVE LEVEL SKILL **
Although dedicated medical equipment is always preferred, if the only thing that is going to keep someone from dying is a creative solution, you better get creative. Using everyday items, including a Zebra F-701 pen, we complete an improvised surgical airway. The techniques posted here have some evidence and proof of concept to support their use in an emergency when better materials aren’t available.

UPDATE:
As an EMS provider, be very careful performing procedures that are above your scope of practice. Although, if you are the most trained person there, you think the casualty will die without the procedure, and you feel you’re adequately trained on it, you have to let your conscience be your guide. Unfortunately, the state EMS board and lawyers will decide after the fact.

That said, if you don’t think the casualty will die without the procedure, going beyond scope of practice can be very risky to both you and the patient.

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