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  1. Caring for young pediatric patients experiencing airway issues - Mayo Clinic

    DePompolo, M.D.. Consider the context of a child's airway issue. In children, a respiratory emergency is a frequent cause of pediatric emergency presentation ...

  2. Critical airway management in kids - Mayo Clinic

    Anatomical differences between children and adults complicate emergency airway management, especially for providers with little pediatric experience.

  3. Caring for young pediatric patients experiencing airway issues - Mayo Clinic

    Consider the context of a child's airway issue. In children, a respiratory emergency is a frequent cause of pediatric emergency presentation and can lead to ...

  4. New standards in pediatric airway reconstruction - Mayo Clinic

    The outcome measures for airway reconstructions involve dozens of variables to be weighed in presurgical planning as well as during and after surgery.

  5. Expiratory central airway collapse is challenging to identify and underdiagnosed - Mayo Clinic

    Dynamic flexible bronchoscopy is the diagnostic criterion standard for expiratory central airway collapse, which can coexist with and mimic asthma, ...

  6. Adult patient arrived with an extraglottic airway in place — So now what? - Mayo Clinic

    Increasingly, extraglottic airway devices are used for adult trauma patients in place of traditional methods of intubation for oxygenation and ventilation.

  7. Foreign object inhaled: First aid - Mayo Clinic

    If the airway is still blocked, use chest compressions such as those that are used in CPR to remove the stuck object. Only use two rescue breaths per cycle.

  8. Airway Tumors Specialty Group - Overview - Mayo Clinic

    This can arise from tumors compressing the airways or directly growing inside of the airway. Similarly, patients who receive radiation therapy for lung cancer ...

  9. Open the airway - Mayo Clinic

    Airway being opened. If you're trained in CPR and you've performed 30 chest compressions, open the person's airway using the head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver.

  10. The emerging option of upper airway stimulation therapy - Mayo Clinic

    A major determining factor of upper airway patency during sleep is the activity of the genioglossus muscle. Activation of this muscle via stimulation of the ...