Guidelines on strategies for the universal implementation of videolaryngoscopy

Manuel Á Gómez-Ríos1, André A J Van Zundert, Alistair F McNarry

  • 1From the Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. University Hospital Complex of A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain (MÁGR), Clinical Management Section of the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Pain Therapy (MÁGR), Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (AAJVZ), University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (AAJVZ), Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, NHS Lothian, UK (AFM), Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (JAL), Warrington Teaching Hospitals, Cheshire, UK (AH), Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Regional University Hospital of Montpellier, St-Eloi Hospital, University of Montpellier, PhyMedExp Montpellier, CEDEX 5, France (ADJ, SJ), Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (KK), Division of Immunology, Immunity to Infection and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK (JH), University of Florida UF Health, Jacksonville, USA (KTS, AS), European Airway Management Society (EAMS) (JH), Department of Emergency Medicine/SMUR, Centre Hospitalier de Wallonie Picarde, Tournai, Belgium (RL), President of the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) (RL), Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil (HPG), Latin American Federation of Emergency Medicine (FLAME) (HPG), Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor, Madrid (AAG), Hospital de Barbanza, A Coruña, Spain (DGR), Science, Research and Education, Airway Management, General University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic (PM), Division of Neuroanesthesiology, University of Florida College of Medicine (LCB). Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Madrid, Spain (MAFV, DMS, AAT), Airway Section of the Spanish Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation, and Pain Therapy (SEDAR) (MAFV, SER), Emergency medical service of Madrid (SUMMA 112), Madrid, Spain (ASM), Department of Anesthesia, Bnai Zion Medical Center (LG, MS), Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (LG, MS), Department of Anesthesiology Penn State College of Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, USA (SV), Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland (TG), Deputy Director Intensive Care and Anaesthetist Cabrini Health (DB), Department of Anaesthesia, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK (ND), Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) (SEHT), Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford University Hospitals, UK (VA), Airway Lead Oxford University Hospitals (VA), Community Medicine Education Promotion Office, Faculty of Medicine Kagawa University Ikenobe Kita-gun Kagawa Japan (NK), Department of Onco-Anaesthesia and Palliative Medicine, Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital and National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (RG), Department of Anaesthesiology Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi-Pakistan (FS), Medical Protocol Department, King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard - Health Affairs, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Research Unit, Department of Medical Education, College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (RR), Biblioteca. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Ferrol (CHUF), Ferrol, Galicia (UGC, JCG, AAS), Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine. Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca (TL), Department of Anesthesiology, Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao (NDLC), Hospital universitario de Getafe, Getafe, Madrid, Spain (DTF), Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Hospital General de Requena, Spain (ARdTL), Head of the Emergency Department, University Hospital Complex of A Coruña, A Coruña, Galicia (JMFO), Department of Anesthesiology. Hospital Universitario Infanta Elena, Valdemoro, Madrid (RCF), Department of Anesthesiology. Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Ourense, Galicia (MCR), Hospital Universitario y Politécnico la Fe. Valencia, Spain (ERG), Hospital MAZ, Zaragoza (ERG), Department of Anesthesiology. Hospital Quirónsalud Miguel Domínguez, Pontevedra, Galicia (OAC), Emergency medical service of Madrid (SAMUR), Madrid, Spain (LJRM) and Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA (CAH).

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