All India difficult airway association 2016 guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in adults

Indian Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 885-898

  Myatra, Sheila Nainan ^a   Shah, Amit ^b   Kundra, Pankaj ^c   Patwa, Apeksh ^b   Ramkumar, Venkateswaran ^d   Divatia, Jigeeshu Vasishtha ^a   Raveendra, Ubaradka S ^e   Shetty, Sumalatha Radhakrishna ^e   Ahmed, Syed Moied ^f   Rajan, Jeson ^a   Pawar, Dilip K ^g   Ramesh, Singaravelu ^h   Das, Sabyasachi ⁱ   Garg, Rakesh ^g  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Kailash Cancer Hospital   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^d KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^e NITTE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^g ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^h KANCHI KAMAKOTI CHILDS TRUST HOSPITAL   (India)

ⁱ NORTH BENGAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Complete ventilation failure; Emergency cricothyroidotomy; Pre oxygenation; Supraglottic airway devices; Unanticipated difficult intubation

Indexed keywords

AERATION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHESIST; APNEA; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD POSITION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIA; LARYNGOSCOPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; OXYGEN MASK; OXYGEN NASAL CANNULA; OXYGENATION; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESSURE SUPPORT VENTILATION; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SUPRAGLOTTIC AIRWAY DEVICE; TRACHEOTOMY; TRANSNASAL HUMIDIFIED RAPID INSUFFLATION VENTILATORY EXCHANGE;

EID: 85007433815     PISSN: 00195049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5049.195481     Document Type: Article

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