New ASA Decision Tree Tool Helps Treat Difficult Airways

New ASA Decision Tree Tool Helps Treat Difficult Airways

Lorraine L. Janeczko, MPH

May 20, 2022

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A new decision tree tool guides anesthesiologists through managing patients with difficult airways by improving communication and identifying factors of concern, according to a report in Anesthesia & Analgesia.   

"The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Task Force on Management of the Difficult Airway has developed a decision tree tool that uses inductive assessments to guide the anesthesiologist's choice of pathway in the ASA's Difficult Airway Algorithm," write co-authors William H. Rosenblatt, MD, and N

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