Wristbands use to identify adult patients with difficult airway: a scoping review

Lema-Flórez, Eduardo; Gómez-Menéndez, Juan Manuel; Ariza, Fredy; Marín-Prado, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.bjane.2021.02.022

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“…Some European and North American countries have already established difficult airway databases. They also use special visual warning signs such as wristbands for hospitalized patients who have had a difficult airway diagnosis to better alert physicians [ 15 ]. However, difficult airway databases have not yet been established in most parts of the world.…”

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A review of the current status and progress in difficult airway assessment research

Chen,

Zheng,

et al. 2024

Eur J Med Res

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A difficult airway is a situation in which an anesthesiologist with more than 5 years of experience encounters difficulty with intubation or mask ventilation. According to the 2022 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Guidelines for the Management of Difficult Airway, difficult airways are subdivided into seven detailed categories. This condition can lead to serious adverse events and therefore must be diagnosed accurately and quickly. In this review, we comprehensively summarize and discuss the different methods used in clinical practice and research to assess difficult airways, including medical history, simple bedside assessment, comprehensive assessment of indicators, preoperative endoscopic airway examination, imaging, computer-assisted airway reconstruction, and 3D-printing techniques. We also discuss in detail the latest trends in difficult airway assessment through mathematical methods and artificial intelligence. With the continuous development of artificial intelligence and other technologies, in the near future, we will be able to predict whether a patient has a difficult airway simply by taking an image of the patient's face through a cell phone program. Artificial intelligence and other technologies will bring great changes to the development of airway assessment, and at the same time raise some new questions that we should think about.

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Section: Traditional Methods Of Difficult Airway Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of the current status and progress in difficult airway assessment research

Chen,

Zheng,

et al. 2024

Eur J Med Res

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“…Having all the airway findings as a document or in electronic form is very helpful. Providing patients with difficult airway bracelets ( 37 ) are also helpful. The airway assessment should document the findings in upper, central and lower airways so as to plan the access, maintain the airway and ventilation.…”

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Non-cardiac Manifestations in Adult Patients With Mucopolysaccharidosis

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Bentley

Chen

et al. 2022

Front. Cardiovasc. Med.

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Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that results in the absence or deficiency of lysosomal enzymes, leading to an inappropriate storage of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) in various tissues of the body such as bones, cartilage, heart valves, arteries, upper airways, cornea, teeth, liver and nervous system. Clinical manifestations can become progressively exacerbated with age and affect their quality of life. Developments in advanced supportive treatment options such as enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) may have improved patients' life span. Adult MPS patients require specialist clinical surveillance long-term. In many cases, in addition to the MPS-related health problems, they may develop age-related complications. Considering the complexity of their clinical manifestations and lack of guidelines on the management of adult MPS disorders, multispecialty and multidisciplinary teams' care is essential to diagnose and treat health problems that are likely to be encountered. This review presents non-cardiac clinical manifestations, their pathophysiology, management and long-term outcomes in adult MPS patients.

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“…Lema-Florez et al . [ 3 ] conducted a systematic review of seven eligible studies regarding the use of wristbands to identify adult patients with known or predicted difficult airway. They concluded that 'The identification of difficult airway with wristbands at an appropriate time is a strategy that is low cost but has a high impact on morbidity'.…”

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