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01-11-2019 | Laryngoscopy | What's New in Intensive Care

What’s new in airway management of the critically ill

Authors: Vincenzo Russotto, Sheila N. Myatra, John G. Laffey

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 11/2019

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Airway management, including tracheal intubation (TI) and tracheostomy constitute the most commonly performed procedures in critically ill patients. Critically ill patients have a ‘physiologically difficult’ airway, i.e. where the underlying hypoxaemia, hypotension, metabolic acidosis and other pathophysiologic changes substantially increase the risk of complications during TI. In contrast to patients in the operating room, factors such as the emergent nature of airway management, the increased risk of aspiration, variable levels of operator experience, less advanced equipment and complex intubating conditions, pose significant additional challenges during TI in these patients. In addition, a proportion of these critically ill patients will also have ‘anatomically’ difficult airways, further increasing risk for adverse airway-related outcomes [1]. …

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Title: What’s new in airway management of the critically ill
Authors: Vincenzo Russotto
Sheila N. Myatra
John G. Laffey
Publication date: 01-11-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Laryngoscopy
Rapid Sequence Induction
Laryngoscopy
Foreign Body Aspiration
Foreign Body Aspiration
Hypoxemia
Aspiration
Non-Invasive Ventilation
Difficult Airway
Airway Management
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 11/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-019-05757-0

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