Open AccessClinical consensus of emergency airway management
Author(s) -
Feng Sun,
Wang Ya,
MA Shi-cheng,
Huadong Zhu,
Xuezhong Yu,
Jun Xu
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.79
Subject(s) - airway management , medicine , airway , intubation , intensive care medicine , emergency management , ventilation (architecture) , medical emergency , anesthesia , mechanical engineering , political science , law , engineering
Airway management is a common and key method to maintain and improve external respiration function of patients. Emergency physicians need a more appropriate guide to airway management. We concisely concluded current circumstances of Chinese emergency airway management. Then, we raised four principles: (I) priority to ventilation and oxygenation; (II) evaluation before intubation; (III) higher level of preparation (de-escalation); (IV) simplest (and least potentially harmful) form of intubation. We raised "CHANNEL" flow to direct initial emergency airway management and an algorithm was showed for emergency physicians understanding key points of airway management and further making medical decision. Finally, we introduced pharmacology of airway management.