In-hospital airway management of COVID-19 patients

Elise H Sullivan; Lauren E Gibson; Lorenzo Berra; Marvin G Chang; Edward A Bittner

doi:10.1186/s13054-020-03018-x

In-hospital airway management of COVID-19 patients

Crit Care. 2020 Jun 5;24(1):292. doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03018-x.

Authors

Elise H Sullivan¹, Lauren E Gibson¹, Lorenzo Berra¹, Marvin G Chang^{2

3}, Edward A Bittner¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. mgchang@mgh.harvard.edu.
³ Division of Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. mgchang@mgh.harvard.edu.

Abstract

Those involved in the airway management of COVID-19 patients are particularly at risk. Here, we describe a practical, stepwise protocol for safe in-hospital airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection.

Keywords: Airway management; COVID-19 airway management; COVID-19, coronavirus; Coronavirus airway management; Emergency airway management; In-hospital airway management; Intubation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Airway Management*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Hospitalization
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*