Article Text
Review
Safe emergency neonatal airway management: current challenges and potential approaches
Abstract
This review examines the airway adjuncts currently used to acutely manage the neonatal airway. It describes the challenges encountered with facemask ventilation and intubation. Evidence is presented on how to optimise intubation safety and success rates with the use of videolaryngoscopy and attention to the intubation environment. The supraglottic airway (laryngeal mask airway) is emerging as a promising neonatal airway adjunct. It can be used effectively with little training to provide a viable alternative to facemask ventilation and intubation in neonatal resuscitation and be used as an alternative conduit for the administration of surfactant.
- neonatology
- resuscitation
Data availability statement
Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study.
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