COVID-19 Airway Management Resource Center

Difficult Airway Management in Adult COVID-19 Patients: Statement by the Society of Airway Management

Lorraine J Foley, Felipe Urdaneta, Lauren Berkow, Michael F Aziz, Paul A Baker, Narasimhan Jagannathan, William Rosenblatt, Tracey M Straker, David T Wong, Carin A Hagberg

Seven Questions in COVID-19 Airway Management: 5W2H

Miguel Ángel Fernández Vaqueroa, Laura Reviriego-Agudob, María Gómez-Rojo, Pedro Charco-Mora

Emergency Intubation in Covid-19

Gentle Sunder Shrestha M.D., Ninadini Shrestha M.D., Ritesh Lamsal M.D., D.M., Saurabh Pradhan M.D., D.M., Anil Shrestha M.D., Robert Canelli M.D., and Rafael Ortega M.D

Critical Perspective: Endotracheal Intubation in Adults with COVID-19: Insights One Year into the Pandemic
In this “Breathe Easy Critical Perspective” podcast from the American Thoracic Society, Dr. Dominique Pepper interviews Dr. Jarrod Mosier

Awake Prone Positioning in COVID-19 Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: Exploratory Findings in a Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study
Eduardo Mh Padrão, Fernando S Valente, Bruno Amp Besen, Hassan Rahhal, Paula S Mesquita, Julio Cg de Alencar, Millena Gp da Costa, Annelise Pb Wanderley, Debora Lopes Emerenciano, Felipe M Bortoleto, Julio Cl Fortes, Bruno Marques, Stefany Fb de Souza, Júlio Fm Marchini, Rodrigo Ab Neto, Heraldo P de Souza

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Do Supraglottic Airways Protect Against Aerosol-Generation?
Mostafa Somri, Luis Gaitini, Marina Gat, Mhfod Sonallah, Alona Paz, Manuel Ángel Gómez-Ríos

Aligning Difficult Airway Guidelines with the Anesthetic COVID-19 Guidelines to Develop a COVID-19 Difficult Airway Strategy: A Narrative Review
Patrick Wong, Wan Yen Lim

COVID-19 Resuscitation Guidelines: A Blanket Rule for Everyone?
C.J. Thorne, M. Ainsworth

Perhaps Something Isn’t Always Better Than Nothing
Dr. Laura Duggan

COVID-19 miniRAGE with Hicks and Brindley
Christopher Hicks MD, Peter Brindley M

Ventilation and airway management during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in COVID-19 era
Massimiliano Sorbello, Ida Di Giacinto, Stefano Falcetta, Robert Greif

The Importance of the Intubation Process for the Safety of Emergency Airway Management
Brian E Driver MD, Jarrod Mosier MD, Calvin A Brown III MD

Rethinking the Early Intubation Paradigm of COVID-19: Time to Change Gears?
Philippe Rola, Joshua Farkas, Rory Spiegel, Cameron Kyle-Sidell, Scott Weingart, Laura Duggan, Marco Garrone, Adam Thomas

Caution About Early Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation in COVID-19
Martin J Tobin, Franco Laghi, Amal Jubran

A Multidisciplinary Approach for Managing the Infraglottic Difficult Airway in the Settings of the Coronavirus Pandemic
S.A.R. Nouraei BChir PhD FRCS, M. GirgisMB FRCA, J. ShorthouseMB FRCA, K. El-Boghdadly, I. AhmadMB FRCA

In-hospital Airway Management of COVID-19 Patients
Elise H. Sullivan, Lauren E. Gibson, Lorenzo Berra, Marvin G. Chang & Edward A. Bittner

Tracheal Intubation in Patients with COVID-19
Laura V. Duggan, George Mastoras and Gregory L. Bryson

EMCrit Team Roundtable – COVID Vent Updates
Scott Weingart

Difficult Airway Management in COVID Times
Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa, Madhuri Kurdi, Konstantinos Stroumpoulis

Just-in-Time Simulation to Guide Workflow Design for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Difficult Airway Management
Rodrigo J Daly Guris, Anushree Doshi, Donald L Boyer, Grace Good, Harshad G Gurnaney, Samuel Rosenblatt, Nancy McGowan, Keith Widmeier, Mizue Kishida, Vinay Nadkarni, Akira Nishisaki, Heather A Wolfe

Respiratory Parameters in Patients With COVID-19 After Using Noninvasive Ventilation in the Prone Position Outside the Intensive Care Unit
Chiara Sartini, MD; Moreno Tresoldi, MD; Paolo Scarpellini, MD; Andrea Tettamanti, DPT; Francesco Carcò, MD; Giovanni Landoni, MD; Alberto Zangrillo, MD

The Difficult Airway Refocused
John C. Sakles, Garrett S. Pacheco, George Kovacs and Jarrod M. Mosier

Airway Management Considerations in Patients with COVID-19
Praveen Chahar, MD, FCARCSI, Sidharth Dugar, MD and Donn Marciniak, MD

COVID-19 Intubation Protocol
Jonathan St. George, MD

COVID-19 Pandemic and Non Invasive Respiratory Management: Every Goliath needs a David. An Evidence Based Evaluation of Problems
J C Winck, N Ambrosino

COVID-19 Pneumonia: Only Some Cases are Like Severe ARDS

Liam Davenport

Proning

Prone Positioning in Non-Intubated Patients with COVID-19: Raising the Bar
Laveena Munshi, Michael Fralick, Eddy Fan

Feasibility and Physiological Effects of Prone Positioning in Non-Intubated Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Due to COVID-19 (PRON-COVID): A Prospective Cohort Study
Anna Coppo, Giacomo Bellani, Dario Winterton, Michela Di Pierro, Alessandro Soria, Paola Faverio, Matteo Cairo, Silvia Mori, Grazia Messinesi, Ernesto Contro, Paolo Bonfanti, Annalisa Benini, Maria Grazia Valsecchi, Laura Antolini, Giuseppe Foti

Prone Positioning of Non-Intubated Patients with COVID-19
Mahendra Damarla, Sandra Zaeh, Shannon Niedermeyer, Samantha Merck, Ashwini Niranjan-Azadi, Bryan Broderick, Naresh Punjabi

Prone Positioning in Awake, Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19: Necessity Is the Mother of Invention
Aartik Sarma, Carolyn S Calfee

Prone Positioning in Awake, Nonintubated Patients With COVID-19 Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure
Alison E. Thompson, MD; Benjamin L. Ranard, MD; Ying Wei, PhD; Sanja Jelic, MD

Prone Positioning in COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Failure: Just Do It?
Bairbre McNicholas, David Cosgrave, Camilla Giacomini, Aoife Brennan, John G Laffey

Conscious Proning: An Introduction of a Proning Protocol for Non-Intubated, Awake, Hypoxic Emergency Department COVID-19 Patients
Lynn G Jiang, Johnathon LeBaron, David Bodnar, Nicholas D Caputo, Bernard P Chang, Gerardo Chiricolo, Stefan Flores, James Kenny, Laura Melville, Osman R Sayan, Manish Sharma, Amos Shemesh, Edward Suh, Brenna Farmer

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Aerosol boxes and barrier enclosures for airway management in COVID-19 patients: a scoping review and narrative synthesis
Massimiliano Sorbello, William Rosenblatt, Ross Hofmeyr, Robert Greif, Felipe Urdaneta

Measurement of airborne particle exposure during simulated tracheal intubation using various proposed aerosol containment devices during the COVID‐19 pandemic
J. P. Simpson, D. N. Wong, L. Verco, R. Carter, M. Dzidowski, P. Y. Chan

Suction-Assisted Containment of Respiratory Droplets During Airway Management With the SALAD Technique
James DuCanto, MD, Robert Barrix, NREMT

In-hospital Airway Management of COVID-19 Patients
Elise H. Sullivan, Lauren E. Gibson, Lorenzo Berra, Marvin G. Chang & Edward A. Bittner

Guiding Airway Management and PPE for COVID-19 Intubating Teams
Lydia Miller, Elvedin Luković, Gebhard Wagener

Enclosure with augmented airflow to decrease risk of exposure to aerosolized pathogens including coronavirus during endotracheal intubation. Can the reduction in aerosolized particles be quantified?
Jason Bryant, Joseph D Tobias

Protective Device During Airway Management in Patients with Coronavirus Disease (COVID19)
Farid Chakib Rahmoune, M.D.; Mohamed Mehdi Ben Yahia, M.D.; Ridha Hajjej, M.D.; Solene Pic; Kais Chatti, M.D.

Learning together to safely intubate patients with COVID-19
Orser, Beverley A. MD, PhD

COVID-19: Intubation Kit, Intubation Team or Intubation Spots?
Sorbello, M; Morello, G; Pintaudi, S; Cataldo, R

COVID-19 and Risks Posed to Personnel During Endotracheal Intubation
David N. Weissman, MD; Marie A. de Perio, MD; Lewis J. Radonovich Jr, MD

Exposure to a Surrogate Measure of Contamination From Simulated Patients by Emergency Department Personnel Wearing Personal Protective Equipment
Oren Feldman, MD; Michal Meir, MD; Danielle Shavit, BSc; Ravit Idelman, MD; Itai Shavit, MD

Airborne Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus‐2 to Healthcare Workers: A Narrative Review
N. M. Wilson A. Norton F. P. Young D. W. Collins

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Advanced Vent and Rescue in ARDS

Jarrod Mosier, MD

COVID-19 Putting Patients at Increased Risk of Unplanned Extubation (UE) While UE and Reintubation Putting Providers at Increased Risk of Contamination

Laura Berkow MD, Arthur Kanowitz MD

Personal protective equipment during the COVID‐19 pandemic – a narrative review

T.M. Cook

Key Human Factors Messages – When Working Under Pressure
Clinical Human Factors Group

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COVID-19 in Kids – It’s Not a Small Problem
Ronna G. Miller, MD, Geoffrey Lowe MD, FAAP, Lori Pandya, MD, FAAP, Brian Miller, MD and Brandon Morshedi, MD, DPT, NREMT

PPE in EMS Moving Forward: Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Aditya Shekhar

EMS After COVID-19
Barry Bachenheimer, EdD, FF/EMT

Literature Review: Support for COVID-19 Patients

International Prehospital Medicine Institute

JEMS

Taipei Azalea – Supraglottic airways (SGA) preassembled with high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters to simplify prehospital airway management for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

Wen-Shuo Yanga, Sheng-Wen Hou, Bin-Chou Lee, Wen-Chu Chiang, Yu-Chun Chien, Shey-Ying Chen, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma

Resuscitation (2020)

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Riccardo Castagnoli MD; Martina Votto MD; Amelia Licari MD; Ilaria Brambilla MD, PhD; Raffaele Bruno MD; Stefano Perlini MD; Francesca Rovida PhD; Fausto Baldanti MD; Gian Luigi Marseglia MD

JAMA Pediatr. [e-pub]

Pediatric Airway Management in COVID-19 patients – Consensus Guidelines from the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia’s Pediatric Difficult Intubation Collaborative and the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society

Clyde T Matava, Pete G Kovatsis, Jennifer Lee Summers, Pilar Castro, Simon Denning, Julie Yu, Justin L Lockman, Britta Von Ungern-Sternberg, Stefano Sabato, Lisa K Lee, Ihab Ayad, Sam Mireles, David Lardner, Simon Whyte, Judit Szolnoki, Narasimhan Jagannathan, Nicole Thompson, Mary Lyn Stein, Nicholas Dalesio, Robert Greenberg, John McCloskey, James Peyton, Faye Evans, Bishr Haydar, Paul Reynolds, Franklin Chiao, Brad Taicher, Thomas Templeton, Tarun Bhalla, Vidya T Raman, Annery Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Jorge Gálvez, Jonathan Tan, Mohamed Rehman, Christy Crockett, Patrick Olomu, Peter Szmuk, Chris Glover, Maria Matuszczak, Ignacio Galvez, Agnes Hunyady, David Polaner, Cheryl Gooden, Grace Hsu, Harshad Gumaney, Caroline Pérez-Pradilla, Edgar E Kiss, Mary C Theroux, Jennifer Lau, Saeedah Asaf, Pablo Ingelmo, Thomas Engelhardt, Mónica Hervías, Eric Greenwood, Luv Javia, Nicola Disma, Myron Yaster, John E Fiadjo

Consensus Statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID-19 adult patient group

Brewster DJ, Chrimes N, Do TB, Fraser K, Groombridge CJ, Higgs A, Humar MJ, Leeuwenburg TJ, McGloughlin S, Newman FG, Nickson CP, Rehak A, Vokes D, Gatward JJ.

Med J Aust 2020

Consensus Guidelines for Managing the Airway in Patients with COVID-19

from the Association of Anaesthetists, the Difficult Airway Society, the Intensive Care Society, the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine and the Royal College of Anaesthetists
T. M. Cook, K. El-Boghdadly, B. McGuire, A. F. McNarry, A. Patel and A. Higgs. Anaesthesia 2020.

The faculty of The Difficult Airway Course™ are committed to providing you with the latest information about emergency airway management in critically ill patients with known or suspected COVID-19, while keeping you and your team as safe as possible.

Edited by Michael Gibbs, MD, this resource center features a curated collection of the most relevant information for airway management in suspected COVID-19 patients.

The pandemic environment we are operating in is changing rapidly. As such, recommendations may change from one day to the next. This resource center is our best effort to share the most current knowledge.