Understanding the physiological alterations and the risks involved in patients with a
physiologically difficult airway is necessary to optimize the physiology and adopt strategies …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease, caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), often results in severe hypoxemia …

Abstract The American Society of Anesthesiologists'(ASA) Task Force on Management of the
Difficult Airway has developed a decision tree tool that uses inductive assessments to guide …

Abstract The Airway Management section of the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology,
Resuscitation, and Pain Therapy (SEDAR), the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine …

Objective: To investigate whether implementation of a multidisciplinary airway team was
associated with improvement in (1) rate of successful airway securement at first attempt;(2) …

With technical advances in airway management, the physiological difficulties of tracheal
intubation in critically ill adults have come to the fore. Cardiovascular instability, hypoxemia …

With transfusion ongoing, the patient was rushed to the operating room (OR) for a
thoracotomy to determine the source of bleeding where arterial and central access was …

Upper airway collapsibility after anaesthesia induction may be associated with
unpredictable difficult airway. However, most works on airway anatomy are tended to …

Background Combining oxygen facemask with apnoeic oxygenation using high-flow-nasal-
oxygen (HFNO) for preoxygenation in the operating room has not been studied against …

The primary aim of this review was to identify, analyse and codify the prominence and nature
of human factors and ergonomics within difficult airway management algorithms. A directed …