In-Theatre Advanced Airway Management Audit |
Opening statement/Guide:
Complete when you perform an in-theatre advanced airway intervention.
Complete when airway management is performed in-theatre, including patients transferred to OT for management.
Inclusion Criteria:
Advanced Airway Intervention Definition:
- Any awake technique.
- Any asleep technique beyond Video-laryngoscope D-blade with introducer (Intubating LMA, Asleep FOI, combination asleep FOI/video laryngoscope, FONA, ECMO, Ketamine FOI, other)
- Advanced techniques used for education
All in-theatre advanced airway interventions included.
Includes remote anaesthesia sites (endoscopy, radiology, cath lab, etc).
Exclusion Criteria:
Do not include out-of-theatre emergency airway management. Please complete the out-of-theatre audit form for these cases.
Examples:
- Airway education.
- Elective case, known difficult airway who is managed with an AFOI
- Acute c-spine injury managed with a combined CMAC and FOI technique.
- ENT, head and neck surgery cases with stable abnormal airway anatomy managed with an AFOI.
- Spontaneously breathing asleep techniques including Ketamine FOI and propofol based(strive-hi).
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