… Organisation Organisational changes are required to identify patients at risk of airway
problems: the obese; patients with airway obstruction; and those with known airway problems. …

… This study was a pilot clinical audit performed at hospital outpatient respiratory clinics in the
region of Andalusia, Spain (eight provinces with over eight million inhabitants), in which 20% …

… The 4th National Audit Project found that failure to assess for and identify potential difficulty,
… there is an anticipated risk of emergent airway obstruction. Difficulty will be encountered in …

… If this technique had been used in some patients instead of prolonged ventilation via SAD
cases of aspiration, fatal airway obstruction and surgical airways might have been avoided. …

… serious airway complications, using similar methods to the fourth UK National Audit Project
(… deteriorated on the ward with complete airway obstruction. The anaesthetist attending the …

… Overall, these data, while distinct from the 4th National Audit Project, suggest that airway …
Airway obstruction was a common aetiology during emergence, transfer to recovery and the …

… The duration of tracheostomy cannulation and cuff inflation is dependent on several
variables including need for mechanical ventilation, upper airway obstruction, and swallowing …

… record the same day; an audit of this system showed it to work effectively and accurately. …
, were reviewed, and the severity of airway obstruction was defined according to the GOLD …

… Aim: The primary goals of this retrospective audit were to assess the clinical performance of
the ILA in pediatric patients with a difficult airway, expand on our initial favorable experience …

… airway obstruction It is important to assess airway patency in any patient at risk of airway
obstruction… This forms part of the ABC approach, sequentially assessing airway, breathing and …