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Paediatric Anaesthesia

Tutorial 399

Approach to the Paediatric Difficult Airway in a High- Versus Low- Resource Setting: A Comparison of Algorithms and Difficult-Airway Trolleys

Dr Agathe Streiff1, Dr Tsitsi Chimhundu-Sithole2, Dr Faye Evans3

1Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, U.S.A.
2Pediatric Anesthesiologist, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe
3Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Edited by: Maytinee Lilaonitkul, MBBS, Assistant Professor, University of California San Francisco, USA; Michael Cooper MBBS, Senior Anaesthetist, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead & St George Hospital, Kogarah, Sydney, Australia

Corresponding author e-mail: astreiff@montefiore.org

Published 5 March 2019

Abstract

This tutorial aims to describe the available national society guidelines on managing pediatric airways, and to compare the difficult airway trolleys of two different institutions from different resource settings.