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Recognition and Management of the Difficult Airway

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Ventilation failure due to difficult airway is the most important cause of anesthesia-related death and disability, and about 30% of anesthesia deaths are related to improper airway management. Difficult airway management is closely related to the safety and quality of anesthesia and is one of the world’s most pressing problems in the field of anesthesiology. Oral maxillofacial head and neck surgery involves cranial, maxillary, facial, oral, nasal, orbital, head and neck, and even thoracic cavities, and is an emerging interdisciplinary specialty. In contrast to other surgical patients, there are specificities in the way difficult airways are evaluated, causes of occurrence and management measures (including the choice of airway establishment route, choice of airway establishment equipment, methods of establishing emergency airway and postoperative airway management, etc.) in this type of surgical patients.

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Jiang, H. (2023). Recognition and Management of the Difficult Airway. In: Jiang, H., Xia, M. (eds) Anesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7287-4_5

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