Open AccessCritical care paramedics’ experiences of performing an emergency scalpel cricothyroidotomy: a qualitative study
Author(s) -
Duncan Aldred,
Mark Durham,
Nora Prokop,
Gary Balderston,
Richard Crabb,
Paul Crouch,
Lewis W. Pike,
John Children,
Andy McBride,
Adam Heywood,
Julia Williams,
A. J. Cowley
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
british paramedic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1478-4726
DOI - 10.29045/14784726.2022.06.7.1.3
Subject(s) - thematic analysis , medicine , airway management , medical emergency , isolation (microbiology) , qualitative research , airway , surgery , social science , sociology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
A scalpel cricothyroidotomy or front of neck access (FONA) is a rarely performed part of airway management for when other steps have failed and the patient cannot be intubated or ventilated. Increasingly advanced and specialist paramedics are being trained to perform this procedure within the pre-hospital environment.