• Ir J Med Sci · Nov 2021

    The hospital difficult airway team: experience and implications for patient care.

    • Lyn Li Lean, Benjamin Zhao Bin Chin, Li Ying Koh, Ne-Hooi Will Loh, and May-Han Loh.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
    • Ir J Med Sci. 2021 Nov 1; 190 (4): 1561-1563.

    AbstractThe difficult airway involves the complex interaction between patient factors, the clinical setting and the practitioner's skills (Apfelbaum in Anesthesiology 118(2):251-70, 2013 and Mark et al. in Anesth Analg 121(1):127-139, 2015). It can also be a result of preparedness and system failures. Our institution developed a protocol to enhance emergency airway management in settings outside of the operating theatre-the difficult airway (DA) team. The aims of this report are to perform a retrospective review to describe the patient profiles as well as our difficult airway code workflow, and to identify preliminary patterns within DAC activations over an 18-month period (September 2013 to November 2015) in a tertiary university hospital. We believe that these findings may aid institutions in establishing a difficult airway protocol or refining existing airway code workflows. Institutional board approval was granted for medical record review.© 2021. Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.

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