RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Safe emergency neonatal airway management: current challenges and potential approaches
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
JO Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 236
OP 241
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2020-319398
VO 107
IS 3
A1 Joyce E O'Shea
A1 Alexandra Scrivens
A1 Gemma Edwards
A1 Charles Christoph Roehr
YR 2022
UL http://fn.bmj.com/content/107/3/236.abstract
AB 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.Data sharing not applicable as no datasets generated and/or analysed for this study.