Background The unanticipated difficult airway is a potentially life‐threatening event during
anaesthesia or acute conditions. An unsuccessfully managed upper airway is associated …

Although bedside screening tests are routinely used to identify people at high risk of having
a difficult airway, their clinical utility is unclear. We estimated the diagnostic accuracy of …

Importance Recognizing patients in whom endotracheal intubation is likely to be difficult can
help alert physicians to the need for assistance from a clinician with airway training and …

Early on, laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) was limited to partial resection, but major LLR is
no longer rare. A difficulty scoring system is required to guide surgeons in advancing from …

Background Non-invasive ventilation has never been compared with high-flow oxygen to
determine whether it reduces the risk of severe hypoxaemia during intubation. We aimed to …

Background Previously active in the mid-1990s, the Canadian Airway Focus Group (CAFG)
studied the unanticipated difficult airway and made recommendations on management in a …

The tracheas of obese patients may be more difficult to intubate than those of normal-weight
patients. We studied 100 morbidly obese patients (body mass index> 40 kg/m 2) to identify …

Purpose Intubation of hypoxemic patients is associated with life-threatening adverse events.
High-flow therapy by nasal cannula (HFNC) for preoxygenation before intubation has never …

Importance Bag-mask ventilation (BMV) is a less complex technique than endotracheal
intubation (ETI) for airway management during the advanced cardiac life support phase of …

Background Tracheal intubation is a common procedure performed to secure the airway in
adults undergoing surgery or those who are critically ill. Intubation is sometimes associated …