Society guideline links: Airway management in adults

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Clinical practice guidelines for rapid sequence intubation in the critically ill adult patient (2023)

●International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR): International consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care science with treatment recommendations (2022)

•Advanced life support

•Basic life support

●Project for Universal Management of Airways (PUMA): Consensus guideline for preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation (2022)

Canada

●Canadian Airway Focus Group (CAFG): Updated consensus-based recommendations for management of the difficult airway – Part 1: Difficult airway management encountered in an unconscious patient (2021)

●CAFG: Updated consensus-based recommendations for management of the difficult airway – Part 2: Planning and implementing safe management of the patient with an anticipated difficult airway (2021)

United States

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Policy statement on mechanical ventilation (2017, reaffirmed 2023)

●ACEP: Policy statement for the verification of endotracheal tube placement (2001, reaffirmed 2022)

●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA): Practice guidelines for management of the difficult airway (2022)

●Society for Airway Management (SAM): Consensus recommendations for the evaluation and management of the physiologically difficult airway (2021)

●American Heart Association (AHA): Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care – Adult basic and advanced life support (2020)

•AHA: Focused update on advanced cardiovascular life support – Use of advanced airways, vasopressors, and extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation during cardiac arrest: An update to the guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care (2019)

●ACEP: Policy statement on rapid-sequence intubation (1996, reaffirmed 2018)

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): Practice management guideline on endotracheal intubation following trauma (2012)

Europe

●European Resuscitation Council (ERC): Guidelines on adult advanced life support (2021)

United Kingdom

●Difficult Airway Society (DAS): Guidelines for awake tracheal intubation (ATI) in adults (2020)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Medical technologies guidance on Ambu aScope4 Broncho for use in unexpected difficult airways (2013, updated 2019)

●DAS, Intensive Care Society (ICS), Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCOA): Guidelines for the management of tracheal intubation in critically ill adults (2018)

●Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI): Guidelines on safer pre-hospital anaesthesia (2017)

●DAS: Guidelines for management of unanticipated difficult intubation in adults (2015)

●Obstetric Anaesthetists' Association (OAA) and DAS: Guidelines for the management of difficult and failed tracheal intubation in obstetrics (2015)

●DAS: Guidelines for the management of tracheal extubation (2012)

●National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP): Multidisciplinary guidelines for the management of tracheostomy and laryngectomy airway emergencies (2012)

India

●All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA): Guidelines for the management of anticipated difficult extubation (2016)

●AIDAA: Guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in adults (2016)

●AIDAA: Guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in obstetrics (2016)

●AIDAA: Guidelines for tracheal intubation in the intensive care unit (2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA): Guideline on equipment to manage difficult airways (2021)

•ANZCA: Guideline on equipment to manage difficult airways background paper (2021)

●Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) and New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC): Guideline 4 – Airway (2021)

●ANZCA: Guidelines for the management of evolving airway obstruction – Transition to the can't intubate can't oxygenate airway emergency (2017)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA): Airway management guideline to improve the safety of induction of anesthesia (2014)

●[In Japanese] JSA: Airway management guideline to improve the safety of induction of anesthesia (2014)