Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Aug 2020
Multicenter Study Observational StudySafety and efficacy of a Staged-Extubation-Set in patients with difficult airway: a prospective multicenter study.
A safe extubation is the extension of any airway management strategy. Despite different guidelines, a number of extubation accidents still occurs. Re-intubation failure could be fatal, thus a strategy and safe and efficient devices for this purpose are essential. ⋯ The results from this study show a relatively satisfactory success rate with a relatively high number of re-intubations failure and a low incidence of complications when using a SES in a cohort of difficult airway patients, all failures due to guidewire dislodgement during or after extubation. Further research is needed to improve success rate; at the same time the need for an extubation protocol is strongly advocated.