CLINICAL INDICATIONS
- High aspiration risk (Bowel obstruction, hiatal hernia, full stomach, gastroparesis)
- Level 1 trauma
- Nausea/vomiting
- Cardiac arrest
-Pregnancy
- Unanticipated difficult airway
- Morbidly obese
- Respiratory failure, ARDS, pulmonary edema, pneumonia
- Difficult mask ventilation
- Short apnea time