Adult ETT / equipment sizing quick prep
Prepares primary tube plus one smaller and one larger; always confirm with waveform EtCO₂, depth, bilateral exam, and imaging when appropriate.
Education-only calculator guides
Clinical Calculators
Grouped by sizing, medications, pediatrics, and ventilator setup. These are training aids; replace defaults with your ED, anesthesia, ICU, and pediatric protocols before clinical teaching use.
Protocol lockout: These calculators intentionally show formulas and ranges. They should not be used as a stand-alone bedside dosing tool until reviewed, approved, and localized by your clinical leadership.
Group 1
Sizing
Tube, depth, blade, predicted body weight, and equipment preparation.
Predicted Body Weight
Uses the common ARDSNet/NIH PBW equation for lung-protective tidal-volume calculations.
Pediatric ETT size + depth
For children ≥1 year, estimates uncuffed ETT as age/4 + 4 and cuffed ETT as 0.5 mm smaller. Stage ±0.5 mm tubes.
Supraglottic rescue size guide
Device-specific sizing varies. Use this only as a staging prompt and check the manufacturer’s chart for the device in your airway cart.
Group 2
Meds
Adult RSI, shock-sensitive induction, paralytic, and post-intubation sedation guides.
Adult RSI medication guide
Shock-risk safety note: for ED intubation patients at increased risk of post-intubation hypotension, this guide emphasizes etomidate or ketamine as the induction-agent scaffold. Avoid treating fentanyl, midazolam, or propofol as equivalent induction/coinduction defaults in shock-risk patients; verify local protocol and clinical context.
Includes induction and paralytic ranges. It is not an order set.
Post-intubation sedation guide
Hard stop: analgesia/sedation should be ready before paralytic administration whenever feasible.
Post-intubation crash risk
Risk prompts selected: 0
Attempt troubleshooting prompt
After a failed attempt, choose the change before trying again:
OxygenatePositionSuctionBladeDeviceOperatorBougieSGACric
Medication handoff builder
Creates the exact verbal sequence you want the room to hear before paralysis.
Use with the adult/peds calculators; do not let post-intubation sedation become an afterthought.
Group 3
Peds
Pediatric airway staging and intubation medication training ranges.
Pediatric intubation meds
Use measured or length-based weight when available. Round thoughtfully and follow pediatric emergency medication standards.
Pediatric atropine helper
Traditional teaching includes 0.02 mg/kg with minimum and maximum dose constraints; local PALS/PED pharmacy policy should control display values.
Pediatric initial vent guide
Tidal volume is a starting guide; titrate to lung mechanics, gas exchange, disease physiology, and pediatric ICU/RT guidance.
Peds airway prebrief
Copy a pediatric airway-specific briefing line for simulation or teaching.
Peds color-zone airway guide
Approximate Broselow-style airway zone helper for education. Use your actual Broselow/length-based tape and local pediatric standards as the bedside source of truth.
Group 4
Ventilator
Initial adult ventilation, ARDS-style VT targets, minute ventilation, and obstructive-physiology prompts.
Adult initial ventilator settings
Default guide: PBW-based VT 4–8 mL/kg, common starting RR range, PEEP/FiO₂ prompt, and plateau-pressure reminder.
Minute ventilation estimator
Useful in severe acidosis when pre-intubation minute ventilation is high and post-intubation under-ventilation can be dangerous.
Obstructive physiology I:E prompt
For asthma/COPD: prioritize long expiratory time, avoid breath stacking, and reassess flow-time waveform.
Oxygenation escalation prompt
Use as a structured reminder, not an automated protocol.
- Confirm tube, waveform EtCO₂, depth, and circuit.
- Increase FiO₂ first for immediate rescue, then titrate PEEP deliberately.
- Check plateau pressure / driving pressure when available.
- Escalate early: RT, ICU, proning/paralysis/ARDS pathway as appropriate.
Driving pressure + static compliance
Requires an inspiratory hold/plateau measurement. Use with RT/ICU workflow.
Vent scenario builder
Use this after the initial settings to force a physiology-specific second pass.
Calculator reference anchors to localize
Use these as starting references while converting the calculator guides into your local protocol display.