ReviewJournal of anesthesia2020
Aligning difficult airway guidelines with the anesthetic COVID-19 guidelines to develop a COVID-19 difficult airway strategy: a narrative review.
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- Videolaryngoscopy for all: A global proposal for safer airway management.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2025Article
- Prehospital respiratory interventions during six waves of COVID-19: results from Israel's Emergency Medical Services system.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Pandemic and infodemic: the role of academic journals and preprints.Journal of anesthesia · 2023Article
- Novel co-axial, disposable, low-cost 3D printed videolaryngoscopes for patients with COVID-19: a manikin study.European journal of anaesthesiology and intensive care · 2023Article
- Practices During Intubation in COVID-19 Intensive Care Units in India: A Cross-Sectional Questionnaire-Based Survey.Cureus · 2023Article
- Bridge the gap: correlate face mask leakage and facial features with 3D morphable face models.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2022Article
- Human Factors and Airway Management in COVID-19 Patients: The Perfect Storm?Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Canadian Airway Focus Group updated consensus-based recommendations for management of the difficult airway: part 2. Planning and implementing safe management of the patient with an anticipated difficult airway.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2021Article
- One Year on: An Overview of Singapore's Response to COVID-19-What We Did, How We Fared, How We Can Move Forward.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- In-Hospital Mortality of COVID-19 Patients Treated with High-Flow Nasal Oxygen: Evaluation of Biomarkers and Development of the Novel Risk Score Model CROW-65.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Practical Advices for Treating Chronic Pain in the Time of COVID-19: A Narrative Review Focusing on Interventional Techniques.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Hospital medical emergency teams and fears of COVID-19: the double-edged sword of pre-alerts.Internal medicine journal · 2021Article
- Current Recommendations for Airway Management Techniques in COVID-19 Patients without Respiratory Failure Undergoing General Anaesthesia: A Nonsystematic Literature Review.Acta medica Lituanic · 2021Review
- Check the gap: Facemask performance and exhaled aerosol distributions around the wearer.PloS one · 2020Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is caused by a coronavirus that is transmitted primarily via aerosol, droplets or direct contact. This may place anesthetists at higher risk of infection due to their frequent involvement in aerosol-generating airway interventions. Many anesthethetic COVID-19 guidelines have emerged, whose underlying management principles include minimizing aerosol contamination and protecting healthcare workers. These guidelines originate from Australia and New Zealand, Canada, China, India, Italy, Korea, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom. Hospitalized COVID-19 patients may require airway interventions, and difficult tracheal intubation secondary to laryngeal edema has been reported. Pre-pandemic difficult airway guidelines include those from Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Scandinavia, the United States and the United Kingdom. These difficult airway guidelines require modifications in order to align with the principles of the anesthetic COVID-19 guidelines. In turn, most of the anesthetic COVID-19 guidelines do not, or only briefly, discuss an airway strategy after failed tracheal intubation. Our article identifies and compares pre-pandemic difficult airway guidelines with the recent anesthetic COVID-19 guidelines. We combine the principles from both sets of guidelines and explain the necessary modifications to the airway guidelines, to form a failed tracheal intubation airway strategy in the COVID-19 patient. Valuing, and a greater understanding of, these differences and modifications may lead to greater adherence to the new COVID-19 guidelines.
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