Difficult Airway Society awake intubation guidelines: supraglottic airway-guided flexible bronchoscopic intubation as an alternative

Cyst hydatid case ruptured after awake intubation causing difficult airway

Encountered throughout the history, the cyst hydatid is a parasitary disease caused by Echinococcus Granulosus. Its prevalence in Turkey is presumed to be around 50 per 100 thousand (1). Cyst hydatid settles in the liver almost at a rate of 60% and about 30% in the lungs. The cysts settling in the lungs are generally solitary and asymptomatic (2). However, it provides findings in some patients ...

Difficult Airway Society guidelines for management of the unanticipated difficult intubation.

UNLABELLED Problems with tracheal intubation are infrequent but are the most common cause of anaesthetic death or brain damage. The clinical situation is not always managed well. The Difficult Airway Society (DAS) has developed guidelines for management of the unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in the non-obstetric adult patient without upper airway obstruction. These guidelines have b...

Difficult Airway Society 2015 guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults†

These guidelines provide a strategy to manage unanticipated difficulty with tracheal intubation. They are founded on published evidence. Where evidence is lacking, they have been directed by feedback from members of the Difficult Airway Society and based on expert opinion. These guidelines have been informed by advances in the understanding of crisis management; they emphasize the recognition a...

Correction to: Local block and Awake Intubation in a Patient with Laryngeal Mass and Anticipated Difficult Airway: A Case Report

Correction to: Local block and Awake Intubation in a Patient with Laryngeal Mass and Anticipated Difficult Airway: A Case Report       Hooshang Akbari1, Ravanbakhsh Esmaeili2   1 Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Paramedical, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing...

An Airway which Facilitates intubation with a Fiberoptic Laryngoscope