Audit

Airway management

Airway

Intensive care medicine

Management

Economics

Laryngeal mask airway

General anaesthesia

Tracheal intubation

Intubation

Anesthesia

Medicine

BJA Education

The primary goal of airway management is the maintenance of alveolar oxygenation. Airway management using face mask ventilation, a supraglottic airway device (SAD), or tracheal intubation is a fundamental skill for all clinicians involved in airway management. Failure to achieve alveolar oxygenation using these methods may result in permanent harm and the risk of death. The Fourth National Audit Project (NAP4) of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) showed that serious airway events occur in at least 1 in 22,000 general anaesthesia cases.

Emergency front of neck access in airway management