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The management of unanticipated difficult airways in children of all age groups in anaesthetic practice - the position paper of an expert panel
- Source :
- Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, Vol 27, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2019.
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Abstract
- Children form a specific group of patients, as there are significant differences between children and adults in both anatomy and physiology. Difficult airway may be unanticipated or anticipated. Difficulties encountered during intubation may cause hypoxia, hypoxic brain injury and, in extreme situations, may result in the patient’s death. There are few paediatric difficult-airway guidelines available in the current literature, and some of these have significant limitations. This position paper, intended for unanticipated difficult airway, was elaborated by the panel of specialists representing the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care as well as the Polish Neonatal Society. It covers both elective intubation and emergency situations in children in all age groups. An integral part of the paper is an algorithm. The paper describes in detail all stages of the algorithm considering some modification in specific age groups, i.e. neonates.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Critical Care
medicine.medical_treatment
Difficult intubation
Guideline
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Neonate
Age groups
030202 anesthesiology
Anesthesiology
Intensive care
Medicine
Intubation
Hypoxic brain injury
Humans
Airway Management
Intensive care medicine
Child
Hypoxia
Difficult airway
Societies, Medical
Unanticipated difficult airway
business.industry
lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
Infant
lcsh:RC86-88.9
Emergency situations
Emergency Medicine
Position paper
Child and adolescent
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Algorithms
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17577241
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....87a8cf837e411f50ec50881498b493db