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Jenna L Schaefer-Randolph,Spencer G Shumway,Colin W Fuller et al. Jenna L Schaefer-Randolph et al.

Future research should prioritize optimizing airway management and evaluating the impact of otorhinolaryngologist involvement, especially in difficult airway cases.

Megan Dahl,Sarah A Thompson,Jerry Chih et al. Megan Dahl et al.

Background Children with a difficult airway are at high risk of decompensation in the setting of respiratory distress. Situational awareness among all team members, and a shared plan in case of an emergency, can reduce the chance of catastrophic outcomes....Methods We developed clinical decision support (CDS) to improve difficult airway situational awareness while minimizing alert burden. Three iterative designs were developed and implemented from 2015 through 2023....We measured interruptive alert burden and performed observations between each implementation to estimate point prevalence among hospitalized patients with a difficult airway of three desired behaviors: presence of a difficult airway sign at the head of the bed, orders placed for appropriate equipment...There was a statistically significant increase in the proportion of difficult airway patients with orders for appropriate equipment from 51.4% to 83.9% (p

Madhuri Kurdi,Bhuvanvijay D,Kaushic A Theerth et al. Madhuri Kurdi et al.

These findings could help in the prediction and management of the difficult airway during various stages of pregnancy.

Weiyi Zhang,Li Du,Yujie Huang et al. Weiyi Zhang et al.

Introduction: Identifying difficult airways and avoiding unanticipated difficult airways through difficult airway assessment are crucial for patient safety prior to airway management....Nevertheless, the diagnostic performance of AI algorithms for difficult airway assessment remains unclear due to the small sample sizes, insufficient image acquisition standards and poor predictive accuracies....databases (Cochrane Library, Web of Science, PubMed, Ovid Medline and Embase), Chinese electronic databases (China National Knowledge Infrastructure, VIP and Wanfang ] and clinical trial registry databases will be searched from their inception until January 2025 to identify clinical trials of AI for difficult...airway assessment.

Christian Menard,Sarah Pierce,Thomas R deTar Christian Menard

This issue summarizes difficult airway management guidelines and discusses their application to trauma patients, including patients with physiologically difficult airways and patients with maxillofacial and laryngotracheal trauma.

Lijun Tang,Yi Zhang,Lianhua Chen et al. Lijun Tang et al.

The intervention group was provided with specific non-hypoxic apnea duration data (247 s until SpO2 reached 90%) during simulated difficult airway scenarios....Notable improvements were observed in pre-anesthesia preparation (P = 0.028), difficult airway management (P < 0.001), and crisis response (P < 0.001).

Ruofan Wang,Yi He,Xiaoqiang Li et al. Ruofan Wang et al.

Although the preoperative airway assessment was normal, unexpectedly difficult airway was encountered. There was a failure of vocal cord exposure under video laryngoscope. A crisis happened when mask ventilation failed.

Andrew McKechnie,Helen A Iliff,Rebecca Black et al. Andrew McKechnie et al.

Introduction: Patients living with obesity present specific challenges for airway management. They have been overrepresented repeatedly in studies looking at complications associated with airway management. Whilst generic...

Ashna Shetty,Sweekar Kudpi Shenoy,Ranjan Ramakrishna et al. Ashna Shetty et al.

The anesthesiologist is put in a dilemma to choose between general and regional anesthesia in such full-term parturients where patients present with suspected head injury anticipating increased intracranial pressure and at the same time are difficult airway posted for emergency C-section in a limited...resource setting with no difficult airway gadgets.