Erschienen in:
21.06.2021 | Editorials
Editors’ note: 2021 Special Issue on airway management
verfasst von:
Stephan K. W. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Philip M. Jones, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Erschienen in:
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie
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Ausgabe 9/2021
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Excerpt
There are few topics as central to anesthesiology and critical care medicine as airway management, and a number of recent developments have led to renewed emphasis on this pivotal aspect of our practice. Globally, in the centre of these has of course been the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in Canada, a recent report in the
Journal of the findings from an analysis of a decade’s worth of closed civil legal airway-related cases from the
Canadian Medical Protective Association that involved anesthesiologists has served as a stark reminder of the catastrophic harm that management errors and guideline adherence failures can produce—in healthy elective patients.
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