Identification of the Physiologically Difficult Airway in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

CONCLUSIONS: We have developed criteria that successfully identify physiologically difficult airways in the PED. Children with hypotension, persistent hypoxemia, concern for cardiac dysfunction, severe metabolic acidosis, status asthmaticus, or who are post-ROSC are at higher risk for peri-intubation cardiac arrest and in-hospital mortality. Further multicenter investigation is needed to validate our findings.
PMID: 32896033 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - September 6, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Dean PN, Hoehn EF, Geis GL, Frey ME, Cabrera-Thurman MK, Kerrey BT, Zhang Y, Stalets EL, Zackoff MW, Maxwell AR, Pham TM, Lautz AJ Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research