Airway recommendations for perioperative patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Numerous guideline recommendations for airway and perioperative management during the COVID-19 pandemic have been published. We identified, synthesized, and compared guidelines intended for anesthesiologists.

Source

Member society websites of the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists and the European Society of Anesthesiologists were searched. Recommendations that focused on perioperative airway management of patients with proven or potential COVID-19 were included. Accelerated screening was used; data were extracted by one reviewer and verified by a second. Data were organized into themes based on perioperative phase of care.

Principal findings

Thirty unique sets of recommendations were identified. None reported methods for systematically searchi

SUBMITTER: Grudzinski AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8809630 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature