Recognition and management
of respiratory failure in children
- Airway differences in children
large occiput -
- may have more tonsil/adenoid tissue -
may exacerbate upper airway obstruction
- larynx more cephalad
- larynx funnel-shaped - cricoid cartilage
smallest part
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Rapid sequence intubation
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preoxygenation
- 100% O2 to spontaneously breathing patient
O2 by bag/mask with Sellick maneuver if apneic -
- Sellick maneuver prevents regurgitation
and aspiration
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