Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination

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rdf:langString Suction Assisted Laryngoscopy Airway Decontamination (SALAD) is incremental step-wise approach to the management of a massively contaminated airway. Emergency airway management is often complicated by the presence of blood, emesis or other contaminants in the airway. For example, in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), vomiting and regurgitation have a reported incidence of 20–30%. The traditional approach to the contaminated airway involves suctioning the airway and repositioning the patient, which can effectively manage airway soiling in many, but not all, cases. However, traditional airway management education has not included the integration of a simultaneous suctioning and airway decontamination skill set as a technique that can be deployed in the setting of large volume contamination and clinicians frequently underestimate the importance of suction as part of airway management. This has led to the development of the SALAD technique, and the creation of modified airway manikins to allow for practice in these techniques.