Society guideline links: Airway management in children

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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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Airway management in adults".)

Links to guidelines related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are also provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: COVID-19 – Index of guideline topics".)

International

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

Canada

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on premedication for endotracheal intubation in the newborn infant (2011, reaffirmed 2018)

●CPS: Practice point for the use of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy in infants and children (2018)

United States

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

●American Heart Association (AHA): Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care – Part 4: Pediatric basic and advanced life support (2020)

•AHA: Focused update on pediatric advanced life support – An update to the guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care (2019)

●AHA: A scientific statement on cardiopulmonary resuscitation in infants and children with cardiac disease (2018)

Europe

●European Resuscitation Council (ERC): Guidelines on newborn resuscitation and support of transition of infants at birth (2021)

●ERC: Guidelines on paediatric life support (2021)

United Kingdom

●Difficult Airway Society (DAS): Paediatric difficult airway guidelines – Cannot intubate and cannot ventilate (CICV) in a paralysed anaesthetized child aged 1 to 8 years

●DAS: Paediatric difficult airway guidelines – Difficult mask ventilation (MV): During routine induction of anaesthesia in a child aged 1 to 8 years

●DAS: Paediatric difficult airway guidelines – Unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation: During routine induction of anaesthesia in a child aged 1 to 8 years

●National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP): Multidisciplinary guidelines for the management of paediatric tracheostomy emergencies (2018)

India

●All India Difficult Airway Association (AIDAA): Guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult tracheal intubation in paediatrics (2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR): Guideline 4 – Airway (2021)

●ANZCOR: Guideline 13.4 – Airway management and mask ventilation of the newborn (2021)

●ANZCOR: Guideline 13.5 – Tracheal intubation and ventilation of the newborn (2021)