All India Difficult Airway Association 2025 Guidelines for the management of unanticipated difficult airway in adults under general anaesthesia.

ABSTRACT: The All India Difficult Airway Association 2025 Adult guideline provides guidance for the management of an unanticipated difficult airway under general anaesthesia. The American Heart Association (AHA) Class of Recommendation and Level of Evidence was used. In addition, for interventions where the evidence was absent or weak, a Delphi process among airway experts was convened to generate expert consensus statements. The most significant difference from the 2016 guidelines is providing guidance for a failed supraglottic airway (SGA) insertion, tracheal intubation, face mask ventilation, or other strategies commonly used as part of the primary airway plan under general anaesthesia, not restricting to a failed intubation. Airway assessment should be routinely performed to identify an anatomic

SUBMITTER: Myatra SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12643155 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature