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Guidance for anaesthesia and perioperative care providers  
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COVID-19 and mental health guide.
A discussion about guarding mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

COVID-19 Mental Health 
Many people without pre-existing mental health conditions are reporting feelings of increased stress, anxiety, and depression.     

 
   
 

Our goal:

                 To reduce the likelihood of adverse anesthetic outcomes through

                 education and discussion of difficult airway management scenarios.

 

 Expertise in airway management is important to every medical specialty.
 Maintaining a patent airway is vital while providing adequate oxygenation and ventilation.

 Failure to do so for even a brief period can be disastrous.

 

 

Difficulty in managing the airway is the single most important cause of major anesthesia-related morbidity and mortality.

 

 

 Excluding dental damage,

 the single largest category of anesthetic-related injury is respiratory events. 

 

The three main causes of respiratory-related injury are:

inadequate ventilation,

esophageal intubation,

and difficult tracheal intubation.

Based on these evidences, the American Society of Anesthesiology(ASA) published recommended guidelines for dealing with the airway.

    References:

  Clinical Anesthesia  /   Editor: Barash, Paul G.; Cullen, Bruce F.; Stoelting, Robert K.
  Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins       Edition: 4th Edition

 

 

The ASA guidelines presented at this website are recommendations

and are not intended as standards or absolute requirements.      Read more >

 

 

 


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 July / 2020