The Difficult Airway

Hagberg, Carin A.; Artime, Carlos A.; Daily, William H.

doi:10.1093/med/9780199794416.001.0001

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“…Patients with these congenital malformations often exhibit micrognathia, retrognathia, and macroglossia; have a smaller oropharyngeal cross section; and are prone to soft tissue-related upper airway obstruction. 23 Patients with severe congenital anomalies that affect the airway are often not candidates for office sedation/GA procedures.…”

Section: Predicting the Difficulty Of Endotracheal Intubationmentioning

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Airway Assessment for Office Sedation/Anesthesia

Rosenberg

Phero

2015

Anesthesia Progress

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Whenever a patient is about to receive sedation or general anesthesia, no matter what the technique, the preoperative assessment of the airway is one of the most important steps in ensuring patient safety and positive outcomes. This article, Part III in the series on airway management, is directed at the ambulatory office practice and focuses on predicting the success of advanced airway rescue techniques.

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Section: Predicting the Difficulty Of Endotracheal Intubationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Airway Assessment for Office Sedation/Anesthesia

Rosenberg

Phero

2015

Anesthesia Progress

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“…VAFI [87] is a two-person intubation technique for use in special circumstances (whether as a planned procedure in the anticipated difficult airway [88] or as a rescue technique [89] performed in either the awake or asleep patient). The videolaryngoscope achieves a superior view of the supraglottis/glottis (than that achieved using a bronchoscope), and the blade creates space for easier tube passage.…”

Section: Video-assisted Flexible/fibreoptic Intubation (Vafi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Airway Management: The Current Role of Videolaryngoscopy

Saul,

Ward,

McNarry

2023

JPM

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Airway management is usually an uncomplicated and safe intervention; however, when problems arise with the primary airway technique, the clinical situation can rapidly deteriorate, resulting in significant patient harm. Videolaryngoscopy has been shown to improve patient outcomes when compared with direct laryngoscopy, including improved first-pass success at tracheal intubation, reduced difficult laryngeal views, reduced oxygen desaturation, reduced airway trauma, and improved recognition of oesophageal intubation. The shared view that videolaryngoscopy affords may also facilitate superior teaching, training, and multidisciplinary team performance. As such, its recommended role in airway management has evolved from occasional use as a rescue device (when direct laryngoscopy fails) to a first-intention technique that should be incorporated into routine clinical practice, and this is reflected in recently updated guidelines from a number of international airway societies. However, currently, overall videolaryngoscopy usage is not commensurate with its now widespread availability. A number of factors exist that may be preventing its full adoption, including perceived financial costs, inadequacy of education and training, challenges in achieving deliverable decontamination processes, concerns over sustainability, fears over “de-skilling” at direct laryngoscopy, and perceived limitations of videolaryngoscopes. This article reviews the most up-to-date evidence supporting videolaryngoscopy, explores its current scope of utilisation (including specialist techniques), the potential barriers preventing its full adoption, and areas for future advancement and research.

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“…The Linux packages are regular .rpm and .deb files for Redhat-or Debian-based Linux distributions, respectively. The NetworkX software library (Hagberg et al, 2013) is supplied with the Windows installer and Linux program packages. DSR can be used together with any GUI like ShelXle (Hü bschle et al., 2011) or WinGX (Farrugia, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%