• Anaesthesia · Jun 2009

    Prehospital airway management on rescue helicopters in the United Kingdom.

    • M Schmid, H Mang, K Ey, and J Schüttler.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany. m.c.schmid@gmail.com
    • Anaesthesia. 2009 Jun 1; 64 (6): 625-31.

    AbstractAdequate equipment is one prerequisite for advanced, out of hospital, airway management. There are no data on current availability of airway equipment on UK rescue helicopters. An internet search revealed all UK rescue helicopters, and a questionnaire was sent to the bases asking for available airway management items. We identified 27 helicopter bases and 26 (96%) sent the questionnaire back. Twenty-four bases (92%) had at least one supraglottic airway device; 16 (62%) helicopters had material for establishing a surgical airway (e.g. a cricothyroidotomy set); 88% of the helicopters had CO(2) detection; 25 (96%) helicopters carried automatic ventilators; among these, four (15%) had sophisticated ventilators and seven (27%) helicopters carried special face masks suitable for non-invasive ventilation. We found a wide variation in the advanced airway management equipment that was carried routinely on air ambulances. Current guidelines for airway management are not met by all UK air ambulances.

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