L – E – M – O – N
- Look
- Evaluate (3-3-2 Rule): 3 fingers between teeth; 3 fingers at space from mentum to hyoid; 2 fingers between thyroid notch and floor of mouth
- Malampati Grade
- Obstruction
- Neck Mobility
Equipment for Basic & Advanced Paediatric Airway Management
- Uncuffed ETT, sizes 2.5 – 5.5
- Cuffed ETT, sizes 6.0 – 9
- Tracheal tube stylets
- Laryngoscope handles
- Miller (straight), sizes 0 – 3
- Macintosh (curved), sizes 2 – 3
- OPA
- NPA
- Paediatric (and adult) Magill Forceps
- NRB Oxygen masks (adult and paediatric)
- Masks (all sizes) for bag-valve ventilation
- Self-inflating ventilation bags (450 – 1200 mL) with oxygen reservoir and PEEP valve
- Oxygen source
- Suction source
- Large bore stiff (Yankaeur) suction tips
- Flexible suction catheters (French sizes 5 – 16)
- NGT (French sizes 4 – 16)
- Pulse Oximeter
- Cardiorespiratory Monitor
- Tracheostomy tubes
- Tracheostomy Surgical Instrument Set
- LMA
- ETCO2 monitor (or detector)
- 14G needle catheter for needle cricothyrotomy (or commercially available set)
- access to video laryngoscopy
Reference: The Paediatric Emergency Medicine Resource, 5th Edn (2012) – APLS