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ArticleBrazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier)

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

Eduardo Lema-Florez, Juan Manuel Gomez-Menendez, Fredy Ariza, Andrea Marin-Prado

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Article in Brazilian journal of anesthesiology (Elsevier). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Difficult airway alert card: A good deed comes around.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Eduardo Lema-FlorezUniversidad del Valle, Department of Anaesthesiology, Cali, Colombia; Centro Médico Imbanaco, Department of Anaesthesiology, Cali, Colombia. Electronic address: eduardo.lema@correounivalle.edu.co.
Juan Manuel Gomez-MenendezUniversidad del Valle, Department of Anaesthesiology, Cali, Colombia; Centro Médico Imbanaco, Department of Anaesthesiology, Cali, Colombia.
Fredy ArizaUniversidad del Valle, Department of Anaesthesiology, Cali, Colombia; Universidad ICESI, Fundacion Valle del Lili, Department of Anesthesiology, Cali, Colombia.
Andrea Marin-PradoUniversidad del Valle, Department of Anaesthesiology, Cali, Colombia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDifficult airway is a clinical situation in which a trained anesthesiologist experiences trouble with facemask ventilation and/or laryngoscopy and/or intubation. Poor identification of at-risk patients has been identified as one of the causes of difficult airway management.

objectivesWe aimed to review the literature regarding the use of wristbands to identify adult patients with known or predicted difficult airway in hospitals.

methodsWe searched Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, MEDLINE and OVID following the stages described by the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). We used a combination of MeSH terms and non-controlled vocabulary regarding the use of difficult airway wristbands in adults. Three researchers independently reviewed the full texts and selected the papers to be included based on the inclusion criteria.

resultsOur search generated 334 articles after removing duplicates. After reviewing full text articles, only seven studies were included. Here we found that most were from the United States, in which the authors report the use of in-patients' wristbands in adults. According to the authors, the use of wristbands is being implemented as a measure of improved quality and safety of in-patients with difficult airway either known or suspected.

conclusionsThe identification with wristbands of a difficult airway at an appropriate time is an identification strategy can have a low cost but a high impact on morbidity. It is pertinent to develop a methodology such as the use of wristbands, that allows a good classification and identification of patients with difficult airway in hospitals from Latin America.

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Airway ManagementLaryngoscopyAdultHumansAirway managementHospital risk reportPatient care planningPatient identification systemsRisk assessments

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PMCPMC9373652

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