Moving towards videolaryngoscopy handling as first option in difficult airway management?

Authors

  • Juan José Correa Barrera Residente de 4º año Anestesia y Reanimación. Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa. Leganés, Madrid. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2060-2706
  • Mónica San Juan Álvarez FEA. Unidad de Anestesia y Reanimación Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa. Leganés, Madrid.
  • Blanca Gómez Del Pulgar Vázquez MIR Anestesia y Reanimación. Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa. Leganés, Madrid.
  • Gholamian Ovejero Soraya MIR Anestesia y Reanimación. Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa. Leganés, Madrid.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30445/rear.v12i7.821

Keywords:

videolaryngocope, algorithm, airway, predictors, difficult intubation

Abstract

Determining the predictors of a difficult airway is a challenge for the anesthesiologist. Most current guides place videolaryngoscopes as recue elements of a failed airway, after an optimal traditional laryngoscopy. Establishing an algorithm which, based on physical charcteristics, allows to determine which patients will benefit from the use of videolaryngoscopy as a first option, may lead to a potential advantage and a net decrease in airway related problems. On the other hand, establishing which of those factors predict in a more reliable way a difficulty with the videolaryngoscopy, will contribute to make better plans of approach as well as an optimal decision making on a difficult airway. This algorithm has been able to achieve tracheal intubation of all patients for which a difficult laryngoscopy is expected.

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2020-08-21

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Barrera, J. J. C., Álvarez, M. S. J., Vázquez, B. G. D. P., & Soraya, G. O. (2020). Moving towards videolaryngoscopy handling as first option in difficult airway management?. Revista Electrónica AnestesiaR, 12(7), 1. https://doi.org/10.30445/rear.v12i7.821

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Vol. 12 No. 7 (2020): Revista Electrónica de AnestesiaR

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