The current trend of emergency airway management: a clinical review

Nah, Sangun; Lee, Yonghee; Choi, Sol Ji; Lee, Jeongwoo; Hwang, Soyun; Lim, Seongmi; Lee, Inhye; Cho, Young Soon; Chung, Hyun Soo; ,

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Review Article

doi: https://doi.org/10.15441/ceem.23.173 [Accepted]

The current trend of emergency airway management: a clinical review

Sangun Nah¹

, Yonghee Lee²

, Sol Ji Choi³

, Jeongwoo Lee⁴, Soyun Hwang⁵, Seongmi Lim⁶, Inhye Lee⁷, Young Soon Cho¹

, Hyun Soo Chung³

; on behalf of the Korean Emergency Airway Management Society

¹Department of Emergency Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Republic of Korea
²Department of Emergency Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
³Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yonsei University Severance Hospital, Republic of Korea
⁴Department of Emergency Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, Republic of Korea
⁵Department of pediatrics, Yonsei university college of medicine, Republic of Korea
⁶Department of Emergency Medicine, HwaHong Hospital, Suwon, Republic of Korea
⁷Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yongin, Republic of Korea

Correspondence Hyun Soo Chung Tel: +82-02-2228-2460, Fax: +82-02-2227-7800, Email: hsc104@yuhs.ac

Received: December 3, 2023. Revised: February 2, 2024. Accepted: February 16, 2024. Published online: March 15, 2024.

ABSTRACT

Airway management is a fundamental and intricate process that involves a sequence of integrated tasks. Situations requiring emergency airway management may occur in emergency department, intensive care units, and various other spaces. Emergency airway management can face a variety of challenges during preparation, intubation, and post-intubation, and may result in significant complications for the patients. Therefore, many countries are establishing step-by-step systemization and detailed guidelines, and updating the content based on the latest research. This clinical review introduces the current trends in emergency airway management, such as emergency airway management algorithms, comparison of video and direct laryngoscopy, rapid sequence intubation, pediatric airway management, pre-hospital airway management, surgical airway management, and airway management education.

Keywords: Airway management; emergency medicine; intubation; rapid sequence intubation