GuidelineAnaesthesia2017
AAGBI: Safer pre-hospital anaesthesia 2017: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.
Guideline in Anaesthesia, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
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Who cites it
58 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 150 citations in OpenAlex.
- Safer prehospital anaesthesia: updated guidelines from the Association of Anaesthetists.Anaesthesia · 2026Guideline
- Association of Anaesthetists guidelines: the use of blood components and their alternatives.Anaesthesia · 2025Guideline
- Success rate of prehospital emergency front-of-neck access (FONA): a systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of anaesthesia · 2023Pooled it
- Association of Checklist Use in Endotracheal Intubation With Clinically Important Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2020Pooled it
- The success of pre-hospital tracheal intubation by different pre-hospital providers: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2017Pooled it
- Preoxygenation With and Without Positive End-Expiratory Pressure in Lung-Healthy Volunteers: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Impact of drug and equipment preparation on pre-hospital emergency Anaesthesia (PHEA) procedural time, error rate and cognitive load.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2018Trial
- Evaluation of the impact of high altitude on pre-hospital anaesthetic administration: a scoping review.BJA open · 2026Review
- Structured correction after difficult direct laryngoscopy during prehospital rapid sequence intubation: an eleven-year physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical service registry study.International journal of emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Service evaluation: Accuracy of using end-tidal COJournal of the Intensive Care Society · 2026Article
- The PaCOJournal of the Intensive Care Society · 2026Article
- Maintenance of prehospital anaesthesia using an intermittent bolus regime in blunt trauma patients with a high GCS and hemodynamic reserve: a retrospective cohort study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Experiences of emergency care practitioners on pre-hospital rapid sequence intubation in South Africa.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2026Article
- The impact of airway assistants on prehospital endotracheal intubations - a subgroup analysis of data from anaesthesiologist-staffed helicopter critical care teams.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Standardized Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) Improves Effectiveness and Safety in Mixed Physician and Paramedic Hungarian EMS.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prehospital Postintubation Hypotension and Survival in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.JAMA network open · 2025Observational
- Airway management analysis in the rescue environment of the emergency service Zug: a retrospective real-world evaluation.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Observational
- Prehospital management of the airway in trauma.BJA education · 2025Review
- Performance characteristics and complications of an Inter-Changeable Operator Model for intubation in an Australian helicopter emergency medical service.Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA · 2025Observational
- Association of mortality and physician experience in prehospital anaesthesia: a registry study on new physicians in Finnish helicopter emergency medical services.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Observational
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Authors and funding
14 authors at 12 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia with oral tracheal intubation is the technique of choice for trauma patients who cannot maintain their airway or achieve adequate ventilation. It should be carried out as soon as safely possible, and performed to the same standards as in-hospital emergency anaesthesia. It should only be conducted within organisations with comprehensive clinical governance arrangements. Techniques should be straightforward, reproducible, as simple as possible and supported by the use of checklists. Monitoring and equipment should meet in-hospital anaesthesia standards. Practitioners need to be competent in the provision of in-hospital emergency anaesthesia and have supervised pre-hospital experience before carrying out pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia. Training programmes allowing the safe delivery of pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia by non-physicians do not currently exist in the UK. Where pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia skills are not available, oxygenation and ventilation should be maintained with the use of second-generation supraglottic airways in patients without airway reflexes, or basic airway manoeuvres and basic airway adjuncts in patients with intact airway reflexes.
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