Anesthesiology Consensus in the Management of the airway

Abstract

The consensus in the management of the airway in anesthesiology intended to provide information, based on current evidence, or in the failing of that in the opinion of experts with respect to the anticipated difficult airway or unanticipated airway. We reinforce the importance of airway assessment and the identification of potential problems that may cause difficulty in their approach and the adoption of a safe strategy to identify and respond to the difficulties encountered. The impossibility of tracheal intubation (cannot intubate) optimized and limited to 4 attempts, the inability to ventilate and oxygenate (cannot oxygenate) after 3 attempts with a supraglottic device or a facial mask, it´s important to make in time a cricothirotomy to ensure oxygenation. Infrequent clinical conditions only with simple plans, known by everyone and regularly trained and adapted to our clinical activity can ensure better "outcomes". The registration of these events and the information to our patient's about the founded difficulty and the way the problem mode has been resolved the issue is essential and is still a challenge to extend into a national basis.