Failed obstetric intubation: oxygenation first
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed33-year-old woman for obstetric failed-intubation declaration, oxygenation-first coordination, individualized decision-boundary review, reassessment, and active-risk handoff practice. About 6 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Declare failed intubation and activate oxygenation-first shared ownership.
- Connect attempts, rescue device, ventilation, aspiration, fetal urgency, and the whole person.
- Review attempt-limit, oxygenation, CICO, awareness, and aspiration boundaries.
- Review the individualized wake-or-proceed decision and parallel readiness.
- Review the fixed 3-minute qualified-team course report.
- Hand off airway, aspiration, awareness, birth, newborn, support, and outcome risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Mushambi MC, Kinsella SM, Popat M, et al. OAA/DAS guidelines for difficult and failed tracheal intubation in obstetrics. Anaesthesia. 2015;70:1286-1306.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.