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Spanish Society of Anesthesiology, Reanimation and Pain Therapy (SEDAR), Spanish Society of Emergency and Emergency Medicine (SEMES) and Spanish Society of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery (SEORL-CCC) Guideline for difficult airway management. Part I
M Á Gómez-Ríos 1 , J A Sastre 2 , X Onrubia-Fuertes 3 , T López 2 , A Abad-Gurumeta 4 , R Casans-Francés 5 , D Gómez-Ríos 6 , J C Garzón 2 , V Martínez-Pons 7 , M Casalderrey-Rivas 8 , M Á Fernández-Vaquero 9 , E Martínez-Hurtado 4 , R Martín-Larrauri 10 , L Reviriego-Agudo 11 , U Gutierrez-Couto 12 , J García-Fernández 13 , A Serrano-Moraza 14 , L J Rodríguez Martín 15 , C Camacho Leis 15 , S Espinosa Ramírez 14 , J M Fandiño Orgeira 16 , M J Vázquez Lima 17 , M Mayo-Yáñez 18 , P Parente-Arias 18 , J A Sistiaga-Suárez 19 , M Bernal-Sprekelsen 20 , P Charco-Mora 7
Abstract
The Airway Management section of the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Pain Therapy (SEDAR), the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES), and the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (SEORL-CCC) present the Guide for the comprehensive management of difficult airway in adult patients.
Its principles are focused on the human factors, cognitive processes for decision-making in critical situations, and optimization in the progression of strategies application to preserve adequate alveolar oxygenation in order to enhance safety and the quality of care.
The document provides evidence-based recommendations, theoretical-educational tools, and implementation tools, mainly cognitive aids, applicable to airway management in the fields of anesthesiology, critical care, emergencies, and prehospital medicine. For this purpose, an extensive literature search was conducted following PRISMA-R guidelines and was analyzed using the GRADE methodology.
Recommendations were formulated according to the GRADE methodology. Recommendations for sections with low-quality evidence were based on expert opinion through consensus reached via a Delphi questionnaire.
CITATION Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim (Engl Ed). 2024 Mar;71(3):171-206. doi: 10.1016/j.redare.2024.02.001. Epub 2024 Feb 8
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