Chest and Airway Problems

Lesson 1. Chest Trauma
Lesson 2. Airway Management
Lesson 3. Cricothyroidotomy

In this course, you will study chest and airway problems. Chest trauma refers to general information about chest injuries as well as information about specific chest injuries. Airway problems includes information on devices — nasopharyngeal airway (NPA), the Combitube™ and KING LT-D™ airway which are both BIADS (blind insertion airway devices), and the endotracheal tube (ET)--that can be used to open and maintain an airway. If other life-saving methods are not successful in opening and maintaining an airway, an opening is made in the trachea to bypass the site of an upper airway obstruction. This subject matter is of vital importance in saving lives.

Occasional references to military terminology or combat situations do not detract from the lesson's relevance for civilian medicine and health care.

David L. Heiserman, Editor