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COVID-19 Airway Management: A Simulation Case for Adult Emergency Department Providers

Last Updated: April 7, 2020

Description

The goal of the simulation is to prepare an emergency medicine team to manage a patient suspected of COVID-19 requiring endotracheal intubation, a high-risk aerosol generating procedure. By the end of this session, learners will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate and adhere to donning and doffing of PPE for high-risk aerosol generating procedures in suspected COVID-19 patients.
  2. Perform an aerosol generating procedure while maintaining precautions, including pre-brief, intubation, and post-intubation management.
  3. Demonstrate closed loop communication with interprofessional team with PPE in place and ongoing infection control procedures.

Authors

Jessica Doan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Ryan Tucker, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
William J. Peterson, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan (wpet@med.umich.edu)
Cindy H. Hsu, MD, PhD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Eve D. Losman, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
Colman Hatton, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan 
Ben S. Bassin, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan 
Carrie Harvey, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan 
Bella Nagappan, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan 
Brendan W. Munzer, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan

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Copyright

This is an open-access publication distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license.