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10/6/22 - Anesthesiology Journal Club - Videolaryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy for adults undergoing tracheal intubation: a Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis update

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Anesthesiologists and anesthesiologists-in-training and other anesthesia professionals, nurse anesthetists and anesthesia assistants.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Inspect the literature surrounding the risk and benefit profile of VL compared with DL in adults.
  • Discuss how to evaluate and interpret a meta-analysis
  • Evaluate how video laryngoscopes of all designs likely result in fewer failed intubations and hypoxaemic events and improved glottic views.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading

  1. Cook TM, Woodall N, Frerk C. Major complications of airway management in the UK: results of the fourth national audit project of the royal college of anaesthetists and the difficult airway society: Part 1. Anaesthesia. Br J Anaesth 2011; 106: 617e31
  2. Hansel J, Rogers AM, Lewis SR, Cook TM, Smith AF. Vid- eolaryngoscopy versus direct laryngoscopy for adults undergoing tracheal intubation. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2022; 4: CD011136
  3. Page MJ, McKenzie JE, Bossuyt PM, et al. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ 2021; 372: n71


Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Dylan Bard, MD — PGY-2 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Joseph Vitale, MD — PGY-2 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Stephen McHugh, MD, FASA — Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Zachary Fuller, MD — PGY-2 Resident, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

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