Airway Guidelines

Canadian Airway Focus Group

• Law. The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 1 – Difficult tracheal intubation encountered in an unconscious/induced patient. Can J Anesth 2013;60:1089-1118   
• Law. The difficult airway with recommendations for management – Part 2 – The anticipated difficult airway. Can J Anesth 2013;60:1119-1138  

UK Difficult Airway Society

Intubation

• Default strategy for intubation including failed direct laryngoscopy
• Failed rapid sequence induction
• Failed intubation, failed ventilation
• Simple composite Chart
• Fibreoptic guided tracheal intubation through Supraglottic Airway Device using Aintree intubation catheter
• Paediatric Difficult Airway

Extubation

• Basic Algorithm
• Low risk algorithm
• 'At risk' algorithm

American Society of Anesthesiologists

• Apfelbaum. Practice Guidelines for Management of the Difficult Airway: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway. Anesthesiology 2013;118(2):251-270
• Trauma - Airway Management 2003